sincerity
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English sinceritie, from Old French sincerité and Medieval Latin sincēritas; both from Latin sincēritas, from sincērus + -tās. Equivalent to sincere + -ity.
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sincerity (countable and uncountable, plural sincerities)
- The quality or state of being sincere; honesty of mind or intention; freedom from simulation, hypocrisy, disguise, or false pretense.
- c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii]:
- I protest, in the sincerity of love.
- c. 1779-1790, Vicesimus Knox, Essays Moral and Literary
- If the shew of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better
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quality of being sincere
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sincerity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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