WITNESS / 107
ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 107
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
Source-reported year for the English white sense; no underlying 1597 printed witness was directly inspected.
Present-Day English1597established
candid
Merriam-Webster lexicographic first-use record for candid
- WITNESS TYPE
- Lexicographic first-use report
- YEAR
- 1597
- LOCATOR
- First Known Use, adjective sense 4
- REPOSITORY
- Not recorded
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Not recorded
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERcandid ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 397 ↗
01
BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Candid — Definition, Word History, and First Known Use
- AUTHOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Merriam-Webster
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- CITATION KEY
- mw-candid