candour
Britishnoun
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the quality of being open and honest; frankness
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fairness; impartiality
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obsolete purity or brightness
Etymology
Origin of candour
C17: from Latin candor, from candēre to be white, shine
Example Sentences
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Crucially, this must also mean an extension of the Duty of Candour to extend to tech firms.
From BBC • Jan. 11, 2025
At present, the rules seem dangerously unclear, and I must urge the royals return to the Picnic Table of Candour to clear them up at their very earliest convenience.
From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2017
They’re delectably venomous, these two: dear Lady Sneerwell, industriously inventing gossip, and her friend Mrs. Candour, so diligently spreading it around.
From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2016
When I was in The School for Scandal at the Bristol Old Vic, a critic drily remarked: "Meera Syal's Mrs Candour pre-empts the pantomime season."
From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2014
In you, and almost only you, we find Sublimity of Wit and Candour of the Mind.
From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund
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