honester

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A form of honest — Scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright.

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adjective
  1. comparativedatednonstandardcomparative form of honest: more honest

    Yes I thank God, I am as honeſt as any man liuing, that is an old man, and no honeſter then I.

    1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v], page 113, column 2, line 1606
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    […] Vpon the verge of the Riuer there are fiue houſes, wherein liue the honeſter ſort of people, as Farmers in England, and they keepe continuall centinell for the townes ſecuritie.

    1624, William Simons, “The Gouernment Returned againe to Sir Thomas Gates, 1611”, in Iohn [i.e., John] Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: […], London: […] I[ohn] D[awson] and I[ohn] H[aviland] for Michael Sparkes, →OCLC, 4th booke, page 111

    “You will hurt our cause!” has been the selfish, cowardly cry of all pseudo reformers, looking for the countenance and support of wealth and respectability, when honester men, guided by a love of principle alone, have stepped to the front, and asked no man to help them, but he who felt like themselves.

    1842, W.C., “‘You will injure our cause.’”, in The Oracle of Reason, Or, Philosophy Vindicated, volume 1, number 31, page 254

    Women are growing honester, braver, stronger, more healthful and skilful and able and free, more human in all ways.

    1898, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics – A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution, page 149

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