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  • noun Plural form of sincerity.

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Examples

  • DONTE 'STALLWORTH, CLEVELAND BROWNS RECEIVER: I would like to once again express my deepest sincerities and condolences to the Reyes family and Mr. Reyes' daughter, Daniela.

    CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2009 2009

  • You are an embarrasment to our blog and your once-thought sincerities have turned into non debates.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: May 10, 2006 2006

  • Beautiful little creature, with the dearest friendly ways & sincerities & simplicities & sweetnesses — the ideal princess of the fairy tales.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • At that moment, Brother Robinson spoke for all of us, and I will forever carry in my heart the sincerities of that ceremony.

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 1964

  • The sensations, passions, and sincerities of this black American crusader, plus his new crossover and international marketability, now challenged all the preceding assessments of twentieth-century historians, social experts, the media, and most pointedly our government.

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 1964

  • They do not then fully appreciate the real gold of truth, that cultivates in them "those general charities of heart, sincerities of thought, and graces of habit, which are likely to lead them, throughout life to prefer frankness to affectation, reality to shadows, and beauty to corruption."

    The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy Robert Elliott Flickinger

  • There had been times when the ostentation and entertaining at Taborley House had become too much for her; this nest of refuge had been her secret -- her place of retreat where she had regarnered her sincerities.

    The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Coningsby Dawson 1921

  • With all her keen intelligence she made the mistake of the enthusiast, that of reading into those whom she loved her own shining qualities, of seeing her own sincerities, her own faithfulness, her own strength, her own utter loyalty looking out on her from them.

    The Call of the Blood Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • And the other fact to be remembered is that the poignant self-analysis and self-betrayal of the dramatic monologue, its "egoism" and its ultimate and appalling sincerities, are a part of the very nature of the lyric impulse.

    A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907

  • Both these men have the making of creative fanatics; in both of them there is an intense moral earnestness and in both great intellectual power; but nature has mixed up with these gifts, which were intended for mankind, a drollery of spirit, only amusing in the confidence of private life which they have allowed to weaken their sincerities.

    The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster Harold Begbie 1900

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