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honesty

honesty Honesty is giving proper regard to moral rights and to rights of property.

Honesty is giving proper regard to moral rights and to rights of property. Historically, the word had a broader sense of moral goodness or what is worth valuing for its own sake, but that wider use has largely fallen out of use.

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Drafting source: Baldwin Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, 1901. 1901 New York Macmillan original; archive index checked 2026-10-18. “Honesty” (Honesty).
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