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Word Meanings - HONESTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Honorably; becomingly; decently. Chaucer. 2. In an honest manner; as, a contract honestly made; to live honestly; to speak honestly. Shak. To come honestly by. To get honestly. A circumlocution for to inherit; as, to come honestly by a

Additional info about word: HONESTLY

1. Honorably; becomingly; decently. Chaucer. 2. In an honest manner; as, a contract honestly made; to live honestly; to speak honestly. Shak. To come honestly by. To get honestly. A circumlocution for to inherit; as, to come honestly by a feature, a mental trait, a peculiarity.

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  • HONESTY
    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; L. rediva is perennial honesty.
  • INHERITABILITY
    The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs. Jefferson.
  • CONTRACTIBLE
    Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
  • INHERITOR
    One who inherits; an heir. Born inheritors of the dignity. Milton.
  • INHERITRIX
    See SHAK
  • INHERITABLY
    By inheritance. Sherwood.
  • CONTRACTED
    1. Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun. 2. Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views. 3. Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace. Inquire me out contracted
  • HONESTATION
    The act of honesting; grace; adornment. W. Montagu.
  • SPEAKERSHIP
    The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.
  • MANNERIST
    One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
  • SPEAKER
    1. One who speaks. Specifically: One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides
  • HONEST
    1. Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming. Chaucer. Belong what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching! Shak. 2. Characterized by integrity or fairness and straightas, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain;
  • MANNERISM
    Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
  • INHERITRESS
    A heiress. Milman.
  • CONTRACTIBLENESS
    Contractibility.
  • INHERITABLE
    Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir. By attainder . . . the blood of the person attainted is so corrupted as to be rendered no longer inheritable. Blackstone. The eldest daughter of
  • CONTRACTION
    The process of shortening an operation. 3. The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease. 4. Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word
  • CIRCUMLOCUTION
    The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrese. the plain Billingagate way of calling names . . . would save abundance of time lost by circumlocution. Swift. Circumlocution
  • INHERIT
    To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir
  • BECOMINGLY
    In a becoming manner.
  • DISHONESTY
    1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2. 2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
  • UNHONEST
    Dishonest; dishonorable. Ascham. -- Un*hon"est*ly, adv. Udall.
  • SUBCONTRACTOR
    One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • DEHONESTATE
    To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see
  • BESPEAKER
    One who bespeaks.
  • OUTSPEAK
    1. To exceed in speaking. 2. To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell. 3. To express more than. Shak.
  • UNBESPEAK
    To unsay; hence, to annul or cancel. Pepys.
  • DISINHERITANCE
    The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison.
  • FORSPEAK
    1. To forbid; to prohibit. Shak. 2. To bewitch. Drayton.
  • FORESPEAKING
    A prediction; also, a preface. Camden. Huloet.

 

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