Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as sincerity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Same as sincerity.

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  • noun sincerity

Etymologies

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sincere +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Martha rose from her seat to greet her, in the hearty Hawaiian way, arms about, lips on lips, faces eloquent and bodies no less eloquent with sincereness and frank excessiveness of emotion.

    ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010

  • And this also receiveth a difference, which hath neither been well judged of, nor well inquired; for the good of fruition or contentment is placed either in the sincereness of the fruition, or in the quickness and vigour of it; the one superinduced by equality, the other by vicissitude; the one having less mixture of evil, the other more impression of good.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • When it's the thinking like Roy has, and Roy's a sincereness ...

    CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2003 2003

  • When it's the thinking like Roy has, and Roy's a sincereness ...

    CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2003 2003

  • Martha rose from her seat to greet her, in the hearty Hawaiian way, arms about, lips on lips, faces eloquent and bodies no less eloquent with sincereness and frank excessiveness of emotion.

    ON THE MAKALOA MAT 1993

  • Martha rose from her seat to greet her, in the hearty Hawaiian way, arms about, lips on lips, faces eloquent and bodies no less eloquent with sincereness and frank excessiveness of emotion.

    On the Makaloa Mat 1919

  • The letter had every outward show of sincereness in expression, and was endowed to wear that appearance by the writer's impulse to protest with so resolute a vigour as to delude herself.

    Diana of the Crossways — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868

  • It rose from groups not so rapidly and largely mixing, and less quick to kindle; whose crazy sincereness battened on the smallest morsel of fact and collected the fictitious by slow absorption.

    Diana of the Crossways — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868

  • He complimented her for her 'generous benevolence,' vaguely, yet with evident sincereness; he admitted, that the modern world is 'attempting difficulties with at least commendable intentions'; and that the position of women demands improvement, consideration for them also.

    One of Our Conquerors — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

  • That was the refrain of the fountain-song in him; the burden being her whims, variations, inconsistencies, wiles; her tremblings between good and naughty, that might be stamped to noble or to terrible; her sincereness, her duplicity, her courage, cowardice, possibilities for heroism and for treachery.

    The Egoist George Meredith 1868

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