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sincere, a.|sɪnˈsɪə(r)|
Also 6 sincer, Sc. -ceir, 6–7 syncere, 7 sinceare, senseare.
[ad. L. sincēr-us clean, pure, sound, etc. Cf. F. sincère (1549), Sp., Pg., and It. sincero.
The first syllable may be the same as sim-, in simplex: see simple a. There is no probability in the old explanation from sine cērā ‘without wax’.]
1. Not falsified or perverted in any way:
a. Of doctrine, etc.: Genuine, pure.
1536Act 27 Hen. VIII, c. 42 §1 The syncere and pure doctrine of Goddes worde. 1597Beard Theatre God's Judgem. (1612) 189 A Popish priest that was once a professor of the sincere religion. 1653? Hale Brevis Disq. in Phenix (1708) II. 340 Many think..that these are the true and genuine Doctrines.., which nevertheless have nothing at all common with the sincere Gospel of Christ. 1679Burnet Hist. Ref. (Pocock) I. 583 It was necessary to establish a form of sincere doctrine. 1827G. S. Faber Sacr. Calend. Prophecy (1844) III. 209 When sincere Christianity was propounded in all its native lustre.
b. True, veracious; correct, exact.
1555(title) [Lydgate's] The Avncient Historie and onely trewe and syncere Cronicle of the warres betwixte the Grecians and the Troyans. 1583Fulke (title), A Defense of the sincere and true Translations of the holie Scriptures into the English tong. 1665G. Havers P. della Valle's Trav. E. India 26 Those great Expeditions..: Of which nevertheless, little sincere fame arrives to us; there being no Europæan who hath written truly thereof. 1693J. Edwards Auth. O. & N. Test. 74 If some few..copies had been corrupted.., the sincere number would have detected the corrupt. 1698Hearne Duct. Hist. (1714) I. 161 Things worthy of our Knowledge; collected out of the most sincere and uncorrupted Monuments of Antiquity. 1861–2R. Williams Notes to Counsel 16 Some sincere editions of the Bible no longer contain those warrants. 1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 19 That is the only sincere glimpse we get of the living, breathing, word-compelling Dante.
c. Morally uncorrupted, uncontaminated.
1649Roberts Clavis Bibl. 513 Keeping them pure and sincere against all temptations.
2. Pure, unmixed; free from any foreign element or ingredient:
a. Of immaterial things.
1538Starkey England ii. ii. 181 The lawys, wyche be syncere and pure reson, wythout any spot or blot of affectyon. c1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (Camden) 214 For the lack of pure and sincere demonstration of the fact. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. ii. (1660) 100 The motion of the Heavens is the most sincere and unlaboured of all motions. a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. (1677) 375 By this means their enjoyments are sincere, unallayed with fears or suspitions. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. ix. 217 His present pleasures (if not so many) are more sincere and natural.
b. Of colours or substances.
1546Langley tr. Pol. Verg. de Invent. vi. vii. 123 b, The white coloure was thought fittest for the ded bicause it is clere, pure, and sincer, and leaste defiled. 1595B. Barnes Div. Cent. Sonn. xlviii, All angels might..out bring Victorious palmes, arraide in sincere white. 1601Holland Pliny xxxiii. vii. II. 476 If a man would know the true and syncere Vermillion indeed, it ought to have the rich and fresh colour of skarlet. 1615Crooke Body of Man 412 Milke..is not mingled with the bloud, but passeth out by vrine pure and sincere. 1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 244 Surely the drink should under the first narrow examination of digestion, put off every stone, and that which is most exceeding hard and sincere. 1744tr. Boerhaave's Instit. III. 254 About the Tendons the Fat in this Membrane is rather watery and mucous than sincere Fat. 1763Phil. Trans. LIII. 233 Scarce any sincere gall issued forth on incision. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. xxi. ii, [Water] having no taste of its own, it becomes the sincere vehicle of every other.
c. spec. Unadulterated; genuine.
1557N. T. (Geneva) 1 Pet. ii. 2 As newe borne babes desire the syncere [Gr. ἄδολον] mylke of the worde. 1576Baker Jewell Health 230 It is a noate or token that the spirit of the wyne was not syncere and pure. 1648J. Beaumont Psyche iii. cxxiv, Those courteous Trees, to mend his fare, Into his Mouth sincerest honey shed. 1679Hist. of Jetzer 4 Down he kicks his Cruet of Holy-Water, adding,..they had none sincere and pure these eleven years, the Church-warden always dashing it with common water. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. vii. 238 And wood is cheap And wine sincere outside the city gate. 1888H. James Partial Portraits 368 There has not been as yet an American Renascence, in spite of the taste for ‘sincere’ sideboards and fragments of crockery.
†d. Free from hurt; uninjured. Obs.
1700Dryden Ovid's Met. xii. 133 He tried..a tough well chosen spear; The inviolable body stood sincere.
e. Devoid of something. rare.
a1754W. Hamilton To Lady Mary Montgomery, The pleasing look, sincere of art. 1874Lowell Agassiz iv. ii, Our air, sincere of ceremonious haze Forcing hard outlines mercilessly close.
3. Containing no element of dissimulation or deception; not feigned or pretended; real, true.
1539Act 31 Hen. VIII, c. 14 Almightie god, the very author and fountaine of al true vnitie and sincer concorde. 1595in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. V. 346 At length stirred up with the instinct of the Holy Ghost & zeale of syncere pietie. 1667Milton P.L. x. 915 Witness Heav'n What love sincere, and reverence in my heart I beare thee. a1699A. Halkett Autobiog. (Camden) 13 Nothing that could exprese a sinceare affection. a1703Burkitt On N.T., Rev. iii. 9 Weak grace, if sincere, shall always find acceptance with Christ. 1771Junius Lett. lv. (1788) 302, I am satisfied that he is a Christian upon the most sincere conviction. 1810Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) I. iv. 106 You are quite right in believing my fondness for rural scenery to be sincere. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 151 A sincere anxiety for the prosperity and dignity of his excellent friend the treasurer.
4. Characterized by the absence of all dissimulation or pretence; honest, straightforward:
a. Of life, actions, etc.
1533Frith Answ. More (1829) 344 Master Wickliffe was noted..to be a man..of a very sincere life. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 1300 Such as pervert the good and sincere life of Commonweales. 1641Hinde J. Bruen vi. 23 By the sincere simplicity and plainnesse of the truth of God..he mightily confuted them. 1700Rowe Amb. Step-Mother ii. i, Thy function Which like the Gods thou Serv'st, should be sincere. 1746Hervey Medit. (1818) 112 My..sincerest acts of religion must not presume to challenge a reward. 1839De Quincey Recoll. Lakes Wks. 1862 II. 176 Entering upon the dignity and the sincere thinking of mature manhood. 1841Emerson Ess., Friendship, Three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
b. Of persons, their character, etc.
1539Bible (Cranmer) 2 Pet. iii. 1, I stere vp your syncere mynde. 1570Satir. Poems Reform. xxiii. 10 The worthie deids done be that Prince sinceir. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xlii. 300 So they doe it out of a sincere conscience. 1686tr. Chardin's Coronat. Solyman 25 Not having altogether the Reputation of a sincere man. 1711Addison Spect. No. 57 ⁋6 A Woman is too sincere to mitigate [etc.]. 1750Gray Elegy 121 Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere. 1775Sheridan Rivals i. ii, If he is as..sincere as you have represented him to me. 1824Byron Juan xvi. xcvii, For surely they're sincerest Who are strongly acted on by what is nearest. 1837Thirlwall Greece xxxv. IV. 393 She had not one sincere friend left. 1878Morley Carlyle 175 He had the unspeakable advantage..of being ruggedly sincere.
absol.1611Bible Ps. cxix. 1 Blessed are the vndefiled [marg. Or, perfect, or sincere] in the way. 1780Cowper Progr. Err. 578 That prize belongs to none but the sincere. 1813Shelley Queen Mab i. 124 The envied boon, That waits the good and the sincere. |