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ALL SOURCES ↗BIBLIOGRAPHIC IDENTITYoed-sincere
SOURCE
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7 PUBLIC LINKS INTO THE GRAPH.
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historical dictionaryoed-sincere
Oxford English Dictionary: sincere, adj.
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Oxford English Dictionary Editors
- YEAR
- Not recorded
- PUBLISHER
- Oxford University Press
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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CONTRARIAN TRUTH CLAIMS
RANKED REVEALS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
RANK 187GRADE Asupports
It never meant “without wax.”
Latin sincerus is real; sine cera is beautiful nonsense.
sincerus
sincerus → sincère → sincere
Etymology sectionRejects the popular sine cera or without-wax explanation.
sincere dossier ↗truth record ↗82UNVEILING
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SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT
DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
opensupportsproposed
A secure alternative
Not yet. The Latin word is clear, but its formation has attracted competing proposals.
Etymology sectionRecords the absence of a secure replacement for the rejected folk etymology.
resolvedsupportsestablished
sine cera — “without wax”
Rejected. The phonology, morphology, and documentary record do not support it.
Etymology sectionRejects sine cera as the formation of Latin sincerus.
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CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS
EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
EDGE 18supportsestablished
sincere → sincère
Present-Day English → French · borrowing
- SOUND
- English borrowed the learned French adjective with later vowel development.
- MEANING
- Material purity shifted toward honesty of feeling and expression.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- OED editors
sincere, adj.EDGE 20supportsboundary
sincerus → UNKNOWN
Latin → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary
- SOUND
- sine cera cannot regularly yield sincerus and lacks documentary support.
- MEANING
- “Without wax” is a later folk story, not an ancestor.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- OED · Ernout & Meillet
Etymology sectionRejects sine cera.
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LEXICAL ATTESTATIONS
WITNESSES REPORTED BY THIS SOURCE
No lexical witness currently cites this source.
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COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE
COGNATES, DESCENDANTS, AND RELATIVES
sincerity
EnglishEnglish derivative
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GEOGRAPHIC AND TEMPORAL CLAIMS
JOURNEY STAGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
stage 4supports
Folk-etymology record
Rejects the “without wax” derivation. The route therefore presents the story as a disconfirmed explanation and withholds an unsupported origin date and map point.
Etymology section: rejection of sine cera · uncertain070
NON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS
HISTORICAL CONTEXT, KEPT SEPARATE
No non-genealogical context link currently cites this source.
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WORD-FAMILY REUSE
DOSSIERS THAT DEPEND ON THIS SOURCE
2 entry-scoped citations map reviewed dossier paths onto the canonical claims above.