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   Honesty , n. [OE. honeste, oneste, honor, OF. honesté, onesté (cf. F. honnêteté), L. honestas. See Honest, a.]
   Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency. [Obs.]
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   She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness.
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   The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile.
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   That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
   1 Tim. ii. 2.
   
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   Chastity; modesty.
   Chaucer.
   
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   To lay . . . siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife.
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   (Bot.) 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; Lunaria rediva is perennial honesty.
   Syn. -- Integrity; probity; uprightness; trustiness; faithfulness; honor; justice; equity; fairness; candor; plain-dealing; veracity; sincerity.
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   Lunary , a. [Cf. F. lunaire. See Lunar.] Lunar. [Obs.]
   Fuller.
   
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   Lunary, n. [Cf. F. lunaire.] (Bot.) (a) The herb moonwort or “honesty”. (b) A low fleshy fern (Botrychium Lunaria) with lunate segments of the leaf or frond.
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