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Mayhew–Skeat (1888)
1888; pinned HTML transcription updated October 28, 2024Honest
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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
adjectivecontrarian claim
candid
Open or frank in modern English, inherited through French and Latin from a family of brightness and whiteness.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗nouncontrarian claim
candor
Frankness or honest expression, historically a word for brightness, radiance, whiteness, and unstained purity.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗adjectivedossier summary
sincere
Genuine, honest, and free from pretense; borrowed from a Latin adjective of uncertain origin.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗023
ATTESTED / RECONSTRUCTED / BOUNDARY
HISTORICAL FORMS
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
candid
open, frank, honest; originally white in English
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- 1597–today
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
candor
frankness or honest expression; earlier brightness and purity
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- 14th century–today
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- 1
Present-Day English / Indo-European
sincere
genuine; honest
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- 1533–today
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- 1
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CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 2
resolvedestablishedposition text
Did candid always mean honest?
No. The first reported English sense is white; clear, pure, fair, honest, frank, and photographic senses develop later.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Was candor originally frankness?
Not exclusively. Its earliest English family includes brightness and unstained purity; straightforward honesty becomes the dominant modern sense.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 3
RANK 186GRADE Acontrarian claim
Candid was white before it was honest.
English first records candid in the white sense. Brightness and unblemished clarity later support fairness, frankness, and honest expression.
RANK 189GRADE Aranked reveal
Candor was radiance before frankness.
Latin candor and the earliest English family name brightness, whiteness, or unstained purity before modern honest expression becomes dominant.
RANK 204GRADE A−contrarian claim
The honest root of icon ends in uncertainty.
Icon securely reaches Greek eikōn “image, likeness.” A proposed deeper comparison is doubtful, so the most revealing answer is the boundary itself.
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