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noun

Candor n. (Written also candour)

Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence. (Obs.) "Nor yor unquestioned integrity Shall e'er be sullied with one taint or spot That may take from your innocence and candor."

A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom from prejudice or disguise; frankness; sincerity. "Attribute superior sagacity and candor to those who held that side of the question."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Candor" Quotes from Famous Books

... judgment and advice, which became increasingly marked during the Paris negotiations. At the time, however, I did not realize that my honest opinion affected the President in the way which I now believe that it did. It had always been my practice as Secretary of State to speak to him with candor and to disagree with him whenever I thought he was reaching a wrong decision in regard to any matter pertaining to foreign affairs. There was a general belief that Mr. Wilson was not open-minded and that he was quick to resent any opposition however well founded. I had not found him so during ...

— The Peace Negotiations • Robert Lansing

... fallen a victim to the foulest treachery of ambitious rivals, rather than to the strength of his open foes. Any one who will in candor trace the movements and the handling of that little army, when beset by an enemy now known to have been double its own strength, must concede that his plans were well conceived, and his generalship in this campaign fully equaled that which had won him ...

— Three Years in the Sixth Corps • George T. Stevens

... He called up to his memory what Diana had been when he first saw and loved her at Laurebourg: how pure and modest she looked! what virginal candor sat upon her brow! and yet she was even then doing her best to urge on a ...

— The Champdoce Mystery • Emile Gaboriau

... it be at once laid aside; but should it excite any interest, I pray its perusal may be accompanied with an indulgent candor, its subjects being of so new, and therefore uncustomary, a character in a work of the kind. But if the reader be one of my own sex, I would especially solicit her patience while going through the first portion of the tale, its author being aware that ...

— Thaddeus of Warsaw • Jane Porter

... turned-up chin, a type of countenance which is passable in youth, but looks old before the time. Her bright, quick eyes expressed her innocent desire to get on in the world, and the envy born of her present inferior position, with rather too much candor; but still they lighted up her commonplace face and set it off with a certain energy of feeling, which success was certain to extinguish in later life. At that time she used to give a good deal of time ...

— The Jealousies of a Country Town • Honore de Balzac

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