SOUND: English borrowed the learned French adjective with later vowel development.
MEANING: Material purity shifted toward honesty of feeling and expression.
SCHOLAR: OED editors
CONFIDENCE: established

Oxford English Dictionary: sincere, adj.supportssincere, adj.ORIGINAL ↗

OPEN CANONICAL EDGE 18 ↗

TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE

EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE

This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.

UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES: 1
REVIEWED EDGES: 1
DEEPEST PATH: 1
MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED: 1

sincere1 connected node

HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE

STEP 01borrowingestablished

Frenchsincère→Present-Day English · 1533–todaysinceregenuine; honest

SOUND: English borrowed the learned French adjective with later vowel development.
MEANING: Material purity shifted toward honesty of feeling and expression.

OED editors1 CITATIONEDGE 18 ↗

Oxford English Dictionary: sincere, adj. · sincere, adj. ↗

“Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.

RECORDED EVIDENCE

ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE

DIRECTLY INSPECTEDprinted bookestablished

1694

The first edition of the Académie française dictionary prints SINCERE as a headword and opens with the senses true and frank.

SINCERE. adj. de t. g. Veritable, franc, qui est sans artifice, sans deguisement.

sincere dossier · recorded as sincère

Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France; digitized by BnF Gallica · ark:/12148/bpt6k1280391q, f. 488WITNESS RECORD ↗Le dictionnaire de l'Académie française. Tome 2 (M–Z), première édition ↗FACSIMILE ↗

EDITORIAL REUSE

WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE

02sinceresincère · established