honesty

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The quality or condition of being honest; integrity.
2. n. Truthfulness; sincerity: in all honesty.
3. n. Archaic Chastity.
4. n. Botany A European plant (Lunaria annua) cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round, flat, papery, silver-white seedpods. Also called money plant, satin flower, silver dollar.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The character or quality of being honest or honorable; upright disposition or conduct; sincerity; honor; virtue.
2. n. Specifically— Chastity; virtuous reputation; honor.
3. n. The virtue of respecting the property rights of others; the absence of any disposition to cheat, steal, or lie.
4. n. Decency; good manners.
5. n. Liberality.
6. n. Credit; reputation.
7. n. In botany, a name of several plants, especially of a small cruciferous plant, Lunaria annua (L. biennis): so called from the transparency of its dissepiments. The perennial honesty is L. rediviva; the maiden's-honesty is Clematis Vitalba. Synonyms Honesty, Honor, Integrity, Probity, Rectitude, Uprightness; equity, trustworthiness, trustiness, fidelity, fairness, candor, veracity, plain-dealing; frankness. The first six words apply primarily to the spirit of the person, and by extension to conduct, etc. They may be negative or positive, expressing the spirit or the act of refraining or of doing. Honesty belongs to the absolute principle of right; honor, on the other hand, belongs to accepted standards of what is due to others or to one's self. Conformity to an exalted standard of honor is more creditable and illustrious than simple honesty. In earlier usage honest and honesty retained much of their Latin significance of honorable and honorableness in the objective sense. (See Rom. xii. 17.) Integrity means soundness, and is used with especial reference to trusts (as, a man of strict business integrity), but it may consider a person as inspected and found whole by others or by himself. Probity is tested honesty, tried and proved integrity. Rectitude and uprightness draw their meanings from the idea of standing up straight, and hence matching the standard of right, but uprightness is more manifestly connected with this idea, and hence, as well as on account of its native origin, is much the more vigorous of the two. See justice.

Wiktionary

1. n. uncountable The act, quality, or condition of being honest; to be truthful
2. n. Any of various crucifers in the genus Lunaria, several of which are grown as ornamentals.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency.
2. n. The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile.
3. n. Chastity; modesty.
4. n. (Bot.) Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; Lunaria rediva is perennial honesty.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration
2. n. the quality of being honest