sincerity

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Michael's simplicity and his sincerity were already known to her, but she had never yet known the strength of him.

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  1. noun The quality or condition of being sincere; genuineness, honesty, and freedom from duplicity.

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  • His sincerity was admitted by everybody, but there seems to have been a strange want of confidence in his judgment. —  Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third.
  • In proportion as these impressions were entertained with sincerity, and uttered with motives and for purposes which might appear to me commendable, would be the difficulty (until they could be removed by evidence of their being erroneous) of explanation or apology. —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2.
  • The sincerity is accomplished through some strong ensemble acting, lead by Ledger's hunky hero. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 04-05 - October-November 2001
  • He was himself a master of his art, and this, perhaps the most agreeable of his paintings, has a masculine sincerity which is absent from at least the later works of Perugino Some miles beyond Cagli, the real pass of the Furlo begins. —  New Italian sketches
  • Scarcely less notable than their sincerity is their variety. —  Robert Burns How To Know Him
 

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  1. from French sincérité =Spanish sinceridad =Portuguese sinceridade =Italian sincerità, from Latin sincerita (t-)s, from sincerus, sincere: see sincere.
 

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/sɪnˈsɛrəti/
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