sincerityn.
/s(ɪ)nˈsɛrᵻti/, U.S. /sɪnˈsɛrədi/ The character, quality, or state of being sincere.† 1. † b. Genuineness (of a passage). Obsolete. rare.
a. Freedom from falsification, adulteration, or alloy; purity, correctness. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [noun]
purenessa1398
simplenessa1398
simplicitya1398
simplesse?c1400
sincerity1546
purity1553
incompoundness1600
unmixedness1612
immixtness1646
immixture1648
uncompoundedness1649
meracity1656
incommixturea1682
singleness1695
simplexity1817
sheerness1903
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > truthfulness, veracity > [noun] > accuracy of statement
sincerity1546
veracity1736
exactitude1825
1546 Udall in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1824) I. 651 That England might the better attain to the sincerity of Christ's doctrine.
1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue Brief Descr. sig. ijv Such dayly danger honge over their heades that professed the sinceritie of the Gospel.
a1622 H. Ainsworth Annot. Five Bks. Moses, Bk. Psalmes & Song of Songs (1639) i. Advt. Some objections made against the sinceritie of the Hebrew Text.
1653 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (new ed.) i. vii Our Rest..will be absolutely Perfect and Compleat; and this both in the Sincerity and Universality of it.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > foundation in fact, validity > [noun] > authenticity > in origin or authorship
authenticalness1632
legitimation1635
sincerity1678
genuineness1699
authenticity1720
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 363 Though this [passage]..be no where now to be found in those extant Tragedies of this Poet..yet the sincerity thereof, cannot reasonably be at all suspected by us.
2.
a. Freedom from dissimulation or duplicity; honesty, straightforwardness.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > sincerity, freedom from deceit > [noun]
heartliness1435
singleness1526
fidelity1534
unfeignedness1535
sincereness1537
uprightness1541
integrity1548
entireness1549
sincerity1557
reality1616
realty1619
single-heartedness1642
plain-heartedness1647
single-mindedness1833
genuineness1841
1557 Bible (Whittingham) 2 Cor. ii. 17 But as of synceritie..speake we in Christ.
1611 Bible (King James) Josh. xxiv. 14 Feare the Lord, and serue him in sinceritie, and in trueth. View more context for this quotation
1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 281 When we Contemplate his Sincerity, which consists in his candid, open and ingenuous dealing with the Sons of Men.
a1718 W. Penn Life in Wks. (1726) I. 137 Sincerity goes farther than Capacity.
1789 W. Belsham Ess. II. xxxii. 212 Martyrdom..is a very satisfactory proof of the sincerity of those who voluntarily submit to it.
1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. II. 27 Who can question the sincerity of these men?
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. ix. 337 Henry..felt no confidence either in the sincerity of the pope, or in the sincerity of the French King.
1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 158 There is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma.
b. Of feelings: Genuineness.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > foundation in fact, validity > [noun] > true character, genuineness
sincerity1611
reality1645
genuineness1647
originality1648
naturalness1656
undissembledness1681
legitimacy1695
genuinity1894
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Cor. viii. 8 To prooue the sinceritie of your loue. View more context for this quotation
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xi. 550 For thee she feels sincerity of woe.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) II. xviii. 75 The sincerity of his friendship has been suspected.
1904 S. H. Butcher Harvard Lect. 191 At the root of all good writing lies sincerity of conviction.
c. plural. Sincere feelings or actions.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > sincerity, freedom from deceit > [noun] > sincere feelings or actions
sincerities1841
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iv. 205 Loyalty and Sovereignty..are grounded not on garnitures and semblances, but on realities and sincerities.
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present i. iv. 34 Exchange our dilettantisms for sincerities.
1877 W. Stubbs 17 Lect. Study Hist. (1886) 101 Men of flesh and blood, with beliefs, sincerities and virtues.
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