| 单词 | frankness of speech |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfrankness of speech b. esp. in speech: Outspokenness. More fully, frankness of speech (in early use = ‘liberty of speech’). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > sincerity, freedom from deceit > [noun] > frankness, straightforwardness > specifically in speech frankness1553 freedom1585 apertness1604 ingenuity1614 unreservedness1713 unreserve1717 candour1769 free-spokenness1858 1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. viii. f. 159 All libertie and franckenes of speache being taken away. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 30 The Other..declared, with a very unnecessary frankness, ‘that he would have no Friendship with him’. 1729 T. Cooke Tales 57 What from the Frankness of your Soul you say The Fool may tattel, and the Knave betray. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. 357 Profound dissimulation under the disguise of military frankness. 1823 C. Lamb Mod. Gallantry in Elia 185 She confessed, with her usual frankness, that she had no sort of dislike to his attentions. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxiv. 168 I shall offend them..by my frankness in stating this. 1886 Academy 30 Jan. 83/3 Certain roughnesses and franknesses of expression. < as lemmas |
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