Word Meanings - HONESTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of honesting; grace; adornment. W. Montagu.

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• HONESTY
  Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.
• GRACE
  The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. And if by grace, then is it no more of
• GRACEFUL
  Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.
• GRACELESS
  1. Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt. "In a graceless age." Milton. 2. Unfortunate. Cf. Grace, n., 4. Chaucer. -- Grace"less*ly, adv. -- Grace"less-ness, n.
• HONESTATION
  The act of honesting; grace; adornment. W. Montagu.
• ADORNMENT
  An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.
• HONEST
  1. Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming. Chaucer. Belong what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching! Shak. 2. Characterized by integrity or fairness and straightas, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain;
• HONESTETEE
  Honesty; honorableness. Chaucer.
• HONESTLY
  1. Honorably; becomingly; decently. Chaucer. 2. In an honest manner; as, a contract honestly made; to live honestly; to speak honestly. Shak. To come honestly by. To get honestly. A circumlocution for to inherit; as, to come honestly by a
• GRACED
  Endowed with grace; beautiful; full of graces; honorable. Shak.
• DISHONESTY
  1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2. 2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
• UNHONEST
  Dishonest; dishonorable. Ascham. -- Un*hon"est*ly, adv. Udall.
• DEHONESTATE
  To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see
• AGGRACE
  To favor; to grace. "That knight so much aggraced." Spenser.
• BEAUMONTAGUE
  A cement used in making joints, filling cracks, etc. For iron, the principal constituents are iron borings and sal ammoniac; for wood, white lead or litharge, whiting, and linseed oil.
• SCAPEGRACE
  A graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless. Beaconsfield.
• BONGRACE
  A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also, a wide-brimmed hat.
• OVERGRACE
  To grace or honor exceedingly or beyond desert. Beau. & Fl.
• DISGRACE
  1. The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect. Macduff lives in disgrace. Shak. 2. The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy. To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honor
• BOWGRACE
  A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice.
• UNDERHONEST
  Not entirely honest. "We think him overproud and underhonest." Shak.
• UNGRACEFUL
  Not graceful; not marked with ease and dignity; deficient in beauty and elegance; inelegant; awkward; as, ungraceful manners; ungraceful speech. The other oak remaining a blackened and ungraceful trunk. Sir W. Scott. -- Un*grace"ful*ly, adv. --
• DEHONESTATION
  A dishonoring; disgracing. Gauden.