Word Meanings - VAWARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The fore part; van. Since we have the vaward of the day. Shak.
Related words: (words related to VAWARD)
- SINCERELY
In a sincere manner. Specifically: Purely; without alloy. Milton. Honestly; unfeignedly; without dissimulation; as, to speak one's mind sincerely; to love virtue sincerely. - SINCERENESS
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The fore part; van. Since we have the vaward of the day. Shak. - SINCERITY
The quality or state of being sincere; honesty of mind or intention; freedom from simulation, hypocrisy, disguise, or false pretense; sincereness. I protest, in the sincerity of love. Shak. Sincerity is a duty no less plain than important. Knox. - SINCERE
sincerus, of uncertain origin; the first part perhaps akin to sin- in singuli , and the second to cernere to separate (cf. 1. Pure; unmixed; unadulterated. There is no sincere acid in any animal juice. Arbuthnot. A joy which never was sincere - SINCE
by an adverbial ending from OE. sithen, also shortened into sithe, sin, AS. si, sy, seo, afterward, then, since, after; properly, after that; fr. sisi afterward, since, OHG. sid, G. seit since, Goth. seipus late, ni sei no longer) + instrumental - INSINCERITY
The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerity of a professed friend; the insincerity of professions - UNSINCERE
Not sincere or pure; insincere. Dryden. -- Un`sin*cere"ness, n. - UNSINCERITY
The quality or state of being unsincere or impure; insincerity. Boyle. - INSINCERELY
Without sincerity. - INSINCERE
1. Not being in truth what one appears to be; not sincere; dissembling; hypocritical; disingenuous; deceitful; false; -- said of persons; also of speech, thought; etc.; as, insincere declarations. 2. Disappointing; imperfect; unsound. To render