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ˈplain-ˌspoken, † ˈplain-spoke, a.
[f. plain adv. + spoken, pa. pple. of speak; cf. outspoken, also behaved ppl. a.]
1. Given to speaking plainly; outspoken, unreserved.
1678Dryden All for Love Pref., A plain-spoken honest man. 1772Fletcher Logica Genev. 103 The Creed of an honest, consistent, plain-spoken Calvinist. 1884Jennings Croker Papers I. ii. 54 [He] was much too sincere and plain-spoken to be a model courtier.
2. Plainly spoken; clearly or directly expressed; outspoken, candid, frank.
1703Rowe Ulyss. i. (1706) C j, Leave my plain spoke Love to prove its Merit. 1836Sir H. Taylor Statesman xxxi. 238 A rough, bluff, hearty, plain-spoken way of eulogising them to their faces. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. III. xii. 106 He seems to have used language nearly as plain-spoken as Tostig did two years later.
Hence plain-ˈspokenness.
1865F. Oakeley Hist. Notes 29 To such friends..he [Mr. Froude] discloses himself..with almost the plain-spokenness of the confessional. 1883W. T. Arnold in Ward Eng. Poets (ed. 2) II. 87 Witter had to expiate his plain spokenness by a rigorous confinement. |