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Honesty vs. Noble — What's the Difference?

Honesty vs. Noble — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Honesty and Noble

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Honesty

Honesty is a facet of moral character that connotes positive and virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, straightforwardness, including straightforwardness of conduct, along with the absence of lying, cheating, theft, etc. Honesty also involves being trustworthy, loyal, fair, and sincere.

Noble

Belonging by rank, title, or birth to the aristocracy
The Duchess of Kent and several other noble ladies
The medieval palace was once owned by a noble Florentine family

Honesty

The quality or condition of being honest; integrity.

Noble

Having or showing fine personal qualities or high moral principles
The promotion of human rights was a noble aspiration

Honesty

Truthfulness; sincerity
In all honesty.
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Noble

(especially in former times) a person of noble rank or birth
The greater a noble's military power, the more land he could control
The king imposed a tax on both nobles and peasants

Honesty

(Archaic) Chastity.

Noble

A former English gold coin first issued in 1351.

Honesty

(Botany) A Eurasian plant (Lunaria annua) in the mustard family, cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round, flat, papery, translucent, silver-white seedpods. Also called money plant, satin flower.

Noble

Possessing hereditary rank in a political system or social class derived from a feudalistic stage of a country's development.

Honesty

The act, quality, or condition of being honest.
Academic / artistic / emotional / intellectual honesty
Brutal / devastating / searing honesty

Noble

Having or showing qualities of high moral character, such as courage, generosity, or honor
A noble spirit.

Honesty

Honor; decency, propriety.

Noble

Proceeding from or indicative of such a character; showing magnanimity
"What poor an instrument / May do a noble deed!" (Shakespeare).

Honesty

Chastity.

Noble

Grand and stately in appearance; majestic
"a mighty Spanish chestnut, bare now of leaves, but in summer a noble tree" (Richard Jeffries).

Honesty

(countable) Any of various crucifers in the genus Lunaria, several of which are grown as ornamentals, particularly Lunaria annua.

Noble

(Chemistry) Inactive or inert.

Honesty

Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency.
She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness.

Noble

A member of the nobility.

Honesty

The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile.
That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

Noble

A gold coin formerly used in England, worth half of a mark.

Honesty

Chastity; modesty.
To lay . . . siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife.

Noble

An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood.
This country house was occupied by nobles in the 16th century.

Honesty

Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; - called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; Lunaria rediva is perennial honesty.

Noble

(historical) A medieval gold coin of England in the 14th and 15th centuries, usually valued at 6s 8d.

Honesty

The quality of being honest

Noble

Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character.
He made a noble effort.
He is a noble man who would never put his family in jeopardy.

Honesty

Southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration

Noble

Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid.
A noble edifice

Noble

Of exalted rank; of or relating to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn.
Noble blood; a noble personage

Noble

Both isohedral and isogonal.

Noble

Possessing eminence, elevation, dignity, etc.; above whatever is low, mean, degrading, or dishonorable; magnanimous; as, a noble nature or action; a noble heart.
Statues, with winding ivy crowned, belongTo nobler poets for a nobler song.

Noble

Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid; as, a noble edifice.

Noble

Of exalted rank; of or pertaining to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn; as, noble blood; a noble personage.

Noble

A person of rank above a commoner; a nobleman; a peer.

Noble

An English money of account, and, formerly, a gold coin, of the value of 6 s. 8 d. sterling, or about $1.61 (in 1913).

Noble

A European fish; the lyrie.

Noble

To make noble; to ennoble.
Thou nobledest so far forth our nature.

Noble

A titled peer of the realm

Noble

Having high moral qualities;
A noble spirit
A solid citizen
An upstanding man
A worthy successor

Noble

Impressive in appearance;
A baronial mansion
An imposing residence
A noble tree
Severe-looking policemen sat astride noble horses
Stately columns

Noble

Of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times;
Of noble birth

Noble

Having or showing or indicative of high or elevated character;
A noble spirit
Noble deeds

Noble

Inert especially toward oxygen;
A noble gas such as helium or neon
Noble metals include gold and silver and platinum

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