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Not exclusively. Its earliest English family includes brightness and unstained purity; straightforward honesty becomes the dominant modern sense.
/ˈkændər/ · noun
Frankness or honest expression, historically a word for brightness, radiance, whiteness, and unstained purity.
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Contrasts brightness and unstained purity with modern frank expression.
Earliest-use note; Did You Know?The semantic sequence is shown as radiance to purity to frankness, without claiming one instantaneous shift.