Honest to Honorable
Honest
(Hon"est) a. [OE. honest, onest, OF. honeste, oneste, F. honnête, L. honestus, fr. honos,
honor, honor. See Honor.]
1. Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming. Chaucer.
Belong what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching!
Shak. 2. Characterized by integrity or fairness and straightforwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc.; upright; just; equitable; trustworthy; truthful; sincere; free
from fraud, guile, or duplicity; not false; — said of persons and acts, and of things to which a moral quality
is imputed; as, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain; an honest business; an
honest book; an honest confession.
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Pope.
An honest physician leaves his patient when he can contribute no farther to his health.
Sir W. Temple.
Look ye out among you seven men of honest report.
Acts vi. 3.
Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
Rom. xii. 17. 3. Open; frank; as, an honest countenance.
4. Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
Wives may be merry, and yet honest too.
Shak. Syn. — Upright; ingenuous; honorable; trusty; faithful; equitable; fair; just; rightful; sincere; frank; candid; genuine.
Honest
(Hon"est), v. t. [L. honestare to clothe or adorn with honor: cf. F. honester. See Honest, a.]
To adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate, or honorable. [Obs.] Abp. Sandys.
Honestation
(Hon`es*ta"tion) n. The act of honesting; grace; adornment. [Obs.] W. Montagu.
Honestetee
(Ho*nes"te*tee) n. Honesty; honorableness. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Honestly
(Hon"est*ly) adv.
1. Honorably; becomingly; decently. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. In an honest manner; as, a contract honestly made; to live honestly; to speak honestly. Shak.
To come honestly by. (a) To get honestly. (b) A circumlocution for to inherit; as, to come honestly
by a feature, a mental trait, a peculiarity.
Honesty
(Hon"es*ty) n. [OE. honeste, oneste, honor, OF. honesté, onesté L. honestas. See Honest,
a.]
1. Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency. [Obs.] Chaucer.
She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness.
Shak. 2. The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech,
etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile.
That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
1 Tim. ii. 2.
