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Sincere — Word History
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Merriam-Webster
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
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sincere
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Roman world
Offers a probable deeper analysis involving sem- and a growth element. SET-U preserves it as a proposal and does not convert it into a consensus ancestor.
Word History: Etymology · regionalEngland
Reports 1533 as the first known English use of sincere; this supports the exact first-use horizon, not the date of every English occurrence.
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