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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Honesty \Hon"es*ty\, n. [OE. honeste, oneste, honor, OF.
     honest['e], onest['e] (cf. F. honn[^e]tet['e]), L. honestas.
     See {Honest}, a.]
     1. Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness;
        decency. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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              She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness.
                                                    --Shak.
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     2. 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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     3. Chastity; modesty. --Chaucer.
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              To lay . . . siege to the honesty of this Ford's
              wife.                                 --Shak.
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     4. (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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lunaria \Lunaria\ prop. n.
     A small genus of European herbs of the mustard family,
     including the herb {honesty} ({Lunaria annua}), which is also
     called {moonwort} and {lunary}.
  
     Syn: genus {Lunaria}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  honesty
       n 1: the quality of being honest [syn: {honestness}] [ant: {dishonesty}]
       2: southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant
          purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white
          seedpods that are used for indoor decoration [syn: {silver
          dollar}, {money plant}, {satin flower}, {satinpod}, {Lunaria
          annua}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "honesty":
     absolute realism, artlessness, assured probity, authenticity,
     blamelessness, bluntness, bona fideness, candor, character,
     cleanness, conscientiousness, decency, dependability, directness,
     disinterestedness, equitableness, equity, erectness, estimableness,
     fairness, forthrightness, frankness, genuineness, good character,
     goodness, guilelessness, high ideals, high principles,
     high-mindedness, honor, honorableness, immaculacy, impartiality,
     inartificiality, incorruption, ingenuousness, integrity,
     irreproachability, irreproachableness, justice, justness,
     legitimacy, lifelikeness, literalism, literality, literalness,
     moral excellence, moral strength, morality, naturalism,
     naturalness, nobility, objectivity, openness, outspokenness,
     photographic realism, principles, probity, pureness, purity,
     realism, realness, rectitude, reliability, reputability,
     respectability, righteousness, scrupulousness, sincerity,
     stainlessness, straightforwardness, true-to-lifeness,
     trustworthiness, truth to nature, truthfulness, unadulteration,
     unaffectedness, unfictitiousness, unimpeachability,
     unimpeachableness, unspeciousness, unspottedness, unspuriousness,
     unsyntheticness, uprightness, upstandingness, veracity,
     verisimilitude, virtue, virtuousness, worthiness
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  HONESTY. That principle which requires us to give every one his due. Nul ne 
  doit slenrichir aux de ens du droit d'autrui. 
       2. The very object of social order is to promote honesty, and to 
  restrain dishonesty; to do justice and to prevent injustice. It is no less a 
  maxim of law than of religion, do unto others as you wish to be done by. 
  
  

















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