candor

Etymology

From Latin candor (“brightness, whiteness”), from candeō (“I shine”).

noun

  1. (obsolete) Whiteness; brilliance; purity.
    Whilst thou didst keep thy Candor undefil'd, Deerly I lov'd thee; as my first-born child[…] 1648, Robert Herrick, Hesperides, "To his Booke"
  2. The state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression.
  3. Impartiality.

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