honesty
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
honesty/ˈɒnəsti/
▶noun
- 1 the quality of being honest.
- 2 a plant with purple or white flowers and round, flat, translucent seed pods. [Genus Lunaria.]
– origin ME: from OFr. honeste, from L. honestas, from honestus (see honest); the plant is so named from its seed pods, translucency symbolizing lack of deceit.
'honesty' also found in these Oxford entries:
all-American
- bona fides
- brutal
- candour
- good faith
- honour system
- impugn
- probity
- questionable
- ring
- salt
- shady
