Candour

Word CANDOUR
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Definitions and meanings of "Candour"

What do we mean by candour?

Whiteness; brilliance; purity.

The state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression.

Impartiality.

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The word "candour" in example sentences

It therefore has a certain candour which was a little lacking from Formosa after August 23. ❋ Unknown (1958)

To be candid – and oh, Louisa, candour is a rare thing among women when it comes to talking of the men – I believe I'd rather be cooking Peter's meals and dusting his home. ❋ Lucy Maud (1912)

Then we soon took it; but in candour I should state that the breaches were rendered more practicable than when first stormed, the defences destroyed, and the enemy's means of defence diminished. ❋ Unknown (1903)

Not even our candour, which is immense, permits us to reprint the slogan the manufacturer has adopted for his poster: those who go prowling on Hudson Street may see it for themselves. ❋ Christopher Morley (1923)

It was the second time that they had met under strange circumstances; yet now as before the sense of her candour was his ruling thought. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)

I believe that my candour was a surprise; perhaps it seemed a defiance. ❋ Anthony Hope (1898)

And now the experience of more than twenty years leaves little room to doubt but that it is a state, of things the most favourable to mutual candour, which is of great importance to domestic peace and good neighbourhood and to the cause of all truth, religious truth least of all excepted. ❋ Edgar Fahs Smith (1891)

Charity as she bears the present prejudices, or judges of the future state of men, is called candour, as opposed to censorious judging. ❋ Unknown (1793)

"Personally, I will miss him, for I can recall his candour and grace during our several conversations and his intense interest in the first Carifesta staged in Guyana, in 1972," Green said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There are more varieties of these hounds than I can here enumerate; but all possess a larger development of brain than the greyhound; their nose is broader, as well as their jaws; their ears are large and hanging; their tail is raised and truncated, and they have a firm, bold, and erect gait, an appearance of strength, independence, and (if I may be allowed to use the expression) candour, which is vainly looked for in other dogs. ❋ R. Lee (1865)

On account of his rank and his services, people pay the bestarred and betitled old brute a sort of reverence; and he looks down upon you and me, and exhibits his contempt for us, with a stupid and artless candour which is quite amusing to watch. ❋ Unknown (2006)

For with that candour which is so delightful, and so common in these days, everything had been told to Mr. Smirkie, — how her young heart had for a time turned itself towards her cousin, how she had been deceived, and then how rejoiced she was that by such deceit she had been reserved for her present more glorious fate. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Pardon the modest candour which is compelled to assume the garb of egotism. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)

Captain Butler, who handsomely admitted that he had never before met with so much "candour" in any similar situation, and to further express his gratitude he ordered his crew to man ship, and at parting called for three rousing British cheers for the good pirate and his men, which were enthusiastically given. ❋ Philip Gosse (1919)

The "candour" noted in him by Pliny is simply that of a sheet of paper which is indifferent to what is written upon it, fair or foul. ❋ Unknown (1902)

Lady Clara's face had assumed an expression of transparent obvious innocence, an intrusive candour which is never seen in nature save when a woman is bent upon deception. ❋ Unknown (1894)

Lady Clara's face had assumed an expression of transparent obvious innocence, an intrusive candour which is never seen in nature save when ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)

One of the author's longer books, _André le Savoyard_, is a curious blend of the _berquinade_ with what some English critics have been kind enough to call the "candour" of the more usual French novel. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

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