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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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Etymology of 'Candor'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Candor" Quotes from Famous Books

... was not possessed of much affinity with the ruder primitive qualities, the stalwart candor and uncultured forces of the natural man; and never had these inherent elements appeared to less advantage in his mind than when he was brought into disastrous conflict with them. He only held his ground for form's sake, and often his voice was overborne by the clamors of many responsive tones, all ...

— The Frontiersmen • Charles Egbert Craddock

... judgment to be impartial, my dear child. Indeed, I assure you, that in my whole life I never knew anything so enchanting as the Princess Amelia. I might speak to you of her angelic beauty, if she were not endowed with an inexpressible charm which is superior even to her beauty. Figure to yourself candor with dignity, and grace in modesty. From the first day in which the grand-duke presented me to her, I felt for this young princess an involuntary sympathy. Nor am I alone in this opinion. The Archduchess Sophia has been at Gerolstein some days; she ...

— Mysteries of Paris, V3 • Eugene Sue

... be he a Krisht," Morris admitted with reluctant candor; "he ain't said nothin' over it to me. On'y a Irisher lady what lives by our house, she says mine ...

— Short Stories of Various Types • Various

... The ease and candor of his manner, joined to the effect of the name on the card, fully reassured her, and she looked up with a smile. "Won't you come ...

— The Tyranny of the Dark • Hamlin Garland

... genius, the discernment, or the "spirits learned in human dealings" of our hero's patrons, they had self-sufficiency and obstinacy in abundance, and what was more unfortunate, they had the power in their hands; a power which in such persons is rarely softened in its exercise by liberality or candor. These, notwithstanding the authority of Godwin and Holcroft's opinion, considered or affected to consider Mr. Cooper as a poor juvenile adventurer, who had no one requisite for the profession. "Their hands, they ...

— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor - Volume I, Number 1 • Stephen Cullen Carpenter

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