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noun

Candor n. (Written also candour)

Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence. (Obs.) "Nor yor unquestioned integrity Shall e'er be sullied with one taint or spot That may take from your innocence and candor."

A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom from prejudice or disguise; frankness; sincerity. "Attribute superior sagacity and candor to those who held that side of the question."

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"Candor" Quotes from Famous Books

... here, don't think me awfully impertinent, but this money's no earthly use to me. I do wish you'd accept it as a very small return for all the pleasure your work has given me, and— There, PLEASE! Not another word!"—all with such candor, delicacy, and genuine zeal that I should be unable to refuse. But I must not raise false hopes in my reader. Nothing of the sort happened. Nothing of that sort ever ...

— James Pethel • Max Beerbohm

... such gravity for me, she only thinks of her being dull by herself," thought Levin. And this lack of candor in a matter ...

— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy

... "Candor compels us to admit," says the report, "that nearly all of the soldiers showed the greatest repugnance to attending the course, and did so only because they were ordered to do so. Several months elapsed before ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 • Various

... journeys, which, in his infirm old age, he undertook in his country's service, there was much of the sublimest spirit of martyrdom. His philosophy, a philosophy of observation and induction, had taught him caution in the formation of opinions, and candor in his judgments. With distinct ideas upon most subjects, he was never so wedded to his own views as to think that all who did not see things as he did must be wilfully blind. His justly tempered faculties lost none of their serene activity ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 • Various

... Beauregard's batteries. They complain that England furnished us with the steel-pointed balls that penetrated their iron turrets. To this there can be no objection; indeed it may be productive of good, by involving the Abolitionists in a new quarrel: but it is due to candor to state that the balls complained of were manufactured in ...

— A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital • John Beauchamp Jones

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