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Sincerity

noun

An earnest and sincere feeling. Synonyms: earnestness, seriousness.

The quality of being open and truthful; not deceitful or hypocritical. "They demanded some proof of my sincerity"

A quality of naturalness and simplicity. Synonym: unassumingness.

The trait of being serious. Synonyms: earnestness, serious-mindedness, seriousness.

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"Sincerity" Quotes from Famous Books

... is personal rather than systematic. And while Rousseau was, from certain aspects and chiefly in respect to his conduct, the most contemptible of the great thinkers of his day, he surpassed most of the others in constant literary sincerity, and in occasional elevation of thought and feeling. Voltaire, although never swerving long from his own general philosophical scheme, would lie without hesitation for any purpose. Diderot would quote from non-existent books to establish his theories. ...

— The Eve of the French Revolution • Edward J. Lowell

... elemental character of the man. "O Poole!" Coleridge wrote to him from Germany afterwards, "you are a noble heart as ever God made!" Poole had indeed in a marked degree the genius for friendship. Strength of character, sympathy, and self-effacing devotion, combined with prudence and sincerity, made this man a tower of refuge for the unstable ...

— Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... While I have much confidence in his sincerity, I cannot approve his decision. [The comma marks the meeting point of clauses too long to be easily read together. Brief clauses do not require the comma. Right: Where thou ...

— The Century Handbook of Writing • Garland Greever

... elementary treatises and pioneers to the English and Americans of those days. She was so anxious to meet Hawthorne that she persuaded William Story to bring him and his wife to her lodgings when she was too ill to go forth. They had read each other's writings and could compliment each other in all sincerity, for Mrs. Jameson had also an excellent narrative style; but Hawthorne found her rather didactic, and although she professed to be able "to read a picture like a book," her conversation was by no means brilliant. She had ...

— The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne • Frank Preston Stearns

... give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you,' (1 Peter 3:15). And I beseech you do it in sincerity. ...

— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

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