Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-HON'ESTY
DIS-HON'ESTY, n. [dizon'esty.]
- Want of probity, or integrity in principle; faithlessness; a disposition to cheat or defraud, or to deceive and betray; applied to persons.
- Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; treachery; any deviation from probity or integrity; applied to acts.
- Unchastity; incontinence; lewdness. – Shak.
- Deceit; wickedness; shame. – 2 Cor. iv.
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