'onesty

Noun

honesty (countable and uncountable, plural honesties)

1. The act, quality, or condition of being honest.
   • academic / artistic / emotional / intellectual honesty

   Synonyms:

   candor, sincerity, frankness, sincereness, truthfulness, veraciousness, veracity, veridicality

2. (obsolete) Honor; decency, propriety.
   • Have ye no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night?c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

   Synonyms:

   integrity, rectitude, uprightness, angelicality, angelicalness, angelicity, angelicness, decency, godliness, honor

3. (obsolete) Chastity.
   • […] spend all I have; only give me so much of your time in exchange of it, as to lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this Ford’s wife […]c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

   Synonyms:

   chasteness, continence

4. (countable) Any of various crucifers in the genus Lunaria, several of which are grown as ornamentals, particularly annual honesty (Lunaria annua).
   • Various measures were taken to avoid it, most popular being the suspension of certain herbs and tree branches over the doorways of dwellings and stables. Commonly used greenery were tansy, honesty, garlic, St. John's Wort, mountain ash, roadside verbena.1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 271

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