honesty

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The act, quality, or condition of being honest.

   academic / artistic / emotional / intellectual honesty

2. 2
   noun

   Honor; decency, propriety.

   Have ye no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night?

3. 3
   noun

   Chastity.

   […] spend all I have; only give me so much of your time in exchange of it, as to lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this Ford’s wife […]

4. 4
   noun

   Any of various crucifers in the genus Lunaria, several of which are grown as ornamentals, particularly annual honesty (Lunaria annua).

   Various measures were taken to avoid it, most popular being the suspension of certain herbs and tree branches over the doorways of dwellings and stables. Commonly used greenery were tansy, honesty, garlic, St. John's Wort, mountain ash, roadside verbena.

5. 5
   noun

   the quality of being honest

6. 6
   noun

   southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration

7. 7
   name

   A female given name.

Etymology

From Middle English honeste (“honour, integrity”), from Old French honesté (compare modern French honnêteté) (honest + -y); the plant, from the visibility of the seeds through the translucent pods. Displaced native Old English sōþfæstnes; and non-native Middle English prodonomee, from Old French prodomie.