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noun

Candor n. (Written also candour)

Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence. (Obs.) "Nor yor unquestioned integrity Shall e'er be sullied with one taint or spot That may take from your innocence and candor."

A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom from prejudice or disguise; frankness; sincerity. "Attribute superior sagacity and candor to those who held that side of the question."

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Etymology of 'Candor'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... and she was certainly not handsome. The coquettish angle at which she carried her head was a mannerism surviving from a time when it was more becoming. She shuddered at the cold candor of the new business woman, ...

— A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays • Willa Cather

... your candor, Mr. Melville. Walk in, Brown. Ha! upon my word, you have a nice home here. Didn't expect to see anything of the kind in this wilderness. Books and pictures! Really, now, Brown, I am quite tempted to ask our friend, Melville, to entertain us ...

— Do and Dare - A Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune • Horatio Alger, Jr.

... want no better friend than you been to me," said Montgomery in a sudden burst of grateful candor. "You've paid two fines for me, and you done what you could for me that time I was sent up, when old man Murphy said he found me in ...

— The Just and the Unjust • Vaughan Kester

... consideration for the Queen my Mother, and will sate her (RASSASIERAI) with honors; but I do not mean that she shall meddle in my affairs; and if she try it, she will find so.'" What a speech; what an outbreak of candor in the young man, preoccupied with his own great thoughts and difficulties,—to the exclusion of ...

— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. IX. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle

... to touch upon a topic of domestic bitterness, but candor compels me to say that Roger's evening vigils invariably ended at the ice-box. There are two theories as to this subject of ice-box plundering, one of the husband and the other of the wife. Husbands are prone ...

— The Haunted Bookshop • Christopher Morley

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