SG Heritage Dictionary

Candid [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. White.

2. Fair; open; frank; ingenuous; free from undue bias; disposed to think and judge according to truth and justice, or without partiality or prejudice; applied to persons.

3. Fair; just; impartial; applied to things; as a candid view, or construction.

Candid [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. White.

2. Free from undue bias; disposed to think and judge according to truth and justice, or without partiality or prejudice; fair; just; impartial; as, a candid opinion.

3. Open; frank; ingenuous; outspoken.

Candidacy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The position of a candidate; state of being a candidate; candidateship.

Candidate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A man who seeks or aspires to an office; one who offers himself, or is proposed fro preferment, by election or appointment; usually followed by for; as a candidate for the office of sheriff.

2. One who is in contemplation for an office, or for preferment, by those who have power to elect or appoint, though he does not offer himself.

3. One who, by his services or actions, will or may justly obtain preferment or reward, or whose conduct tends to secure it; as a candidate for praise.

4. A man who is qualified, according to the rules of the church, to preach the gospel, and take the charge of a parish or religious society, and proposes to settle in the ministry.

5. One who is in a state of trial or probation for a reward, in another life; as a candidate for heaven or for eternity.

Candidate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors.

Candidateship [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Candidacy.

Candidating [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The taking of the position of a candidate; specifically, the preaching of a clergyman with a view to settlement.

Candidature [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Candidacy.

Candidly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Openly; frankly; without trick or disguise; ingenuously.

Candidly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a candid manner.

Candidness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Openness of mind; frankness; fairness; ingenuousness.

Candidness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality of being candid.

Whiteness Roget’s Thesaurus §430

N. whiteness, argent, albification, etiolation, lactescence, snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster, albata, eburin, german silver, white metal, barium sulphate, titanium oxide, blanc fixe, ceruse, pearl white, white lead, carbonate of lead

V. be white, render white, whiten, bleach, blanch, etiolate, whitewash, silver

Adj. white, milk-white, snow-white, snowy, niveous, candid, chalky, hoar, hoary, silvery, argent, argentine, canescent, cretaceous, lactescent, whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond, blanched, high in tone, light, white as a sheet, white as driven snow, white as a lily, white as silver, like ivory

Veracity Roget’s Thesaurus §543

N. veracity, truthfulness, frankness, &c. adj, truth, sincerity, candor, unreserve|, honesty, fidelity, plain dealing, bona fides, love of truth, probity, ingenuousness, the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth, honest truth, sober truth, unvarnished tale, light of truth

V. speak the truth, tell the truth, speak by the card, paint in its true colors, show oneself in one's true colors, make a clean breast, speak one's mind, not lie, not deceive

Adj. truthful, true, veracious, veridical, scrupulous, sincere, candid, frank, open, straightforward, unreserved, open hearted, true hearted, simple-hearted, honest, trustworthy, undissembling &c (dissemble ), guileless, pure, truth-loving, unperjured, true blue, as good as one's word, unaffected, unfeigned, bona fide, outspoken, ingenuous, undisguised, uncontrived

Adv. truly, in plain words, in truth, with truth, of a truth, in good truth, as the dial to the sun, as the needle to the pole, honor bright, troth, in good sooth, in good earnest, unfeignedly, with no nonsense, in sooth, sooth to say, bona fide, in foro conscientiae, without equivocation, cartes sur table, from the bottom of one's heart, by my troth

Phr. di il vero a affronterai il diavolo, dichtung und wahrheit, esto quod esse videris, magna est veritas et praevalet, "that golden key that opes the palace of eternity", veritas odium parit, veritatis simplex oratio est, verite sans peur

Artlessness Roget’s Thesaurus §703

N. artlessness, nature, simplicity, innocence, bonhomie, naivete, abandon, candor, sincerity, singleness of purpose, singleness of heart, honesty, plain speaking, epanchement, rough diamond, matter of fact man, le palais de verite, enfant terrible

V. be artless, look one in the face, wear one's heart upon his sleeves for daws to peck at, think aloud, speak out, speak one's mind, be free with one, call a spade a spade

Adj. artless, natural, pure, native, confiding, simple, lain, inartificial, untutored, unsophisticated, ingenu, unaffected, naive, sincere, frank, open, open as day, candid, ingenuous, guileless, unsuspicious, honest, innocent, arcadian, undesigning, straightforward, unreserved, aboveboard, simple-minded, single-minded, frank-hearted, open-hearted, single-hearted, simple-hearted, free-spoken, plain-spoken, outspoken, blunt, downright, direct, matter of fact, unpoetical, unflattering

Adv. in plain words, in plain english, without mincing the matter, not to mince the matter

Phr. davus sum non oedipus, liberavi animam meam, "as frank as rain on cherry blossoms", 1, conditional antagonism

Probity Roget’s Thesaurus §939

N. probity, integrity, rectitude, uprightness, honesty, faith, honor, bonne foi, good faith, bona fides, purity, clean hands, fairness, fair play, justice, equity, impartiality, principle, even-handedness, grace, constancy, faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty, incorruption, incorruptibility, trustworthiness, truth, candor, singleness of heart, veracity, tender conscience, punctilio, delicacy, nicety, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, scruple, point, point of honor, punctuality, dignity &c, (repute) 873, respectability, respectableness, gentilhomme, gentleman, man of honor, man of his word, fidus achates, preux chevalier, galantuomo, truepenny, trump, brick, true briton, white man *, court of honor, a fair field and no favor, argumentum ad verecundiam

V. be honorable, deal honorably, deal squarely, deal impartially, deal fairly, speak the truth, draw a straight furrow, tell the truth and shame the devil, vitam impendere vero, show a proper spirit, make a point of, do one's duty, redeem one's pledge, keep one's promise, be as good as one's promise, be as good as one's word, keep faith with, not fail, give and take, audire alteram partem, give the devil his due, put the saddle on the right horse, redound to one's honor

Adj. upright, honest, honest as daylight, veracious, virtuous, honorable, fair, right, just, equitable, impartial, evenhanded, square, fair and aboveboard, open and aboveboard, white *, constant, constant as the northern star, faithful, loyal, staunch, true, true blue, true to one's colors, true to the core, true as the needle to the pole, "marble-constant", true-hearted, trusty, trustworthy, as good as one's word, to be depended on, incorruptible, straightforward, frank, candid, open-hearted, conscientious, tender-conscienced, right-minded, high-principled, high-minded, scrupulous, religious, strict, nice, punctilious, correct, punctual, respectable, reputable, gentlemanlike, inviolable, inviolate, unviolated, unbroken, unbetrayed, unbought, unbribed, innocent, pure, stainless, unstained, untarnished, unsullied, untainted, unperjured, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled, undepraved, undebauched, integer vitae scelerisque purus, justus et tenax propositi, chivalrous, jealous of honor, sans peur et sans reproche, high- spirited, supramundane, unworldly, other-worldly, overscrupulous

Adv. honorable, bona fide, on the square, in good faith, honor bright, foro conscientiae, with clean hands

Phr. "a face untaught to feign", bene qui latuit bene vixit, mens sibi conscia recti, probitas laudatur et alget, fidelis ad urnam, "his heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth", loyaute m'oblige, loyaute n'a honte, "what stronger breastplate than a heart untainted?"