early 14c., "splendor, honor; elegance," later "honorable position; propriety of behavior, good manners; virginity, chastity" (late 14c.), from Old French honesté (Modern French honnêteté), from Latin honestatem (nominative honestas) "honor received from others; reputation, character;" figuratively "uprightness, probity, integrity, virtue," from honestus (see honest). Meaning "moral purity, uprightness, virtue, justness" is from c. 1400; in English, the word originally had more to do with honor than honest.
雙語例句
1. We like him for his honesty, his lack of pretension.
我們喜歡他的誠實、不浮夸。
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2. Her eyes stared into his with an expression of absolute honesty.
她凝視著他的眼睛，一臉誠懇。
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3. The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing.
成功的秘訣在于誠實和公平交易。
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4. She had an unshakeable faith in human goodness and natural honesty.
她堅信人的本性是善良誠實的。
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5. But in all honesty, I wish it had never happened.