Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
honesty .
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Examples
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Si caput, crus dolet, brachium, &c. Medicum accersimus, recte et honeste, si par etiam industria in animi morbis poneretur.
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Duo praecepta juris una nocte expressit, neminem laeserat et honeste vixerat, sed an suum cuique reddidisset, quaeri poterat.
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Nec omnibus, sed mercatoribus et iis qui honeste impendent, &c.
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Ther is no glittering apparell, no rattelinge in sylkes, no sylkes, no rusteling in veluettes, but a litle brieche of brawded russhes, or rather a couering of honeste shamefacednesse.
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The apparail that the souldiours do vse, is most comely and honeste.
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So gladde is she to haue the victorie, in the contencion of wiuely chastitie, and honeste behauiour toward her husbande.
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What so euer was dishoneste to be done, that thoughte thei not honeste to be spoken.
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Ars honeste fartandi in societate, per Marcum Corvinum
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Ars honeste fartandi in societate, per Marcum Corvinum
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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[193] "Omnis consuevit amans in coamantis aspectu pallescere," &c. Rules supposed to have been discovered by a knight at the court of Arthur, and transcribed in the "Flos Amoris," or "De Arte honeste amandi," of André le Chapelain, thirteenth century; "Romania," vol.xii. p. 532.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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