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Candor

Candor \Can"dor\, n. [Written also candour.] [L. candor, fr. cand["e]re; cf. F. candeur. See candid.]

  1. Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence. [Obs.]

    Nor yor unquestioned integrity Shall e'er be sullied with one taint or spot That may take from your innocence and candor.
    --Massinger.

  2. A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom from prejudice or disguise; frankness; sincerity.

    Attribute superior sagacity and candor to those who held that side of the question.
    --Whewell.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
candor

"openness of mind, impartiality, frankness," c.1600, from Latin candor "purity, openness," originally "whiteness," from candere "to shine, to be white" (see candle). Borrowed earlier in English (c.1500) with the Latin literal sense "extreme whiteness."

Wiktionary
candor

n. 1 (context obsolete English) whiteness; brilliance. 2 The state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression. 3 impartiality.

WordNet
candor
  1. n. ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty [syn: fairness, fair-mindedness, candour] [ant: unfairness]

  2. the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech [syn: candour, candidness, frankness, forthrightness]

Gazetteer
Candor, NY -- U.S. village in New York
Population (2000): 855
Housing Units (2000): 373
Land area (2000): 0.442580 sq. miles (1.146277 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.442580 sq. miles (1.146277 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12210
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.230169 N, 76.337909 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 13743
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Candor, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000): 825
Housing Units (2000): 299
Land area (2000): 1.193627 sq. miles (3.091480 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.193627 sq. miles (3.091480 sq. km)
FIPS code: 10120
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.293032 N, 79.742423 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 27229
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Candor

Candor (or candour) may refer to:

  • Candor, New York, a town
  • Candor (village), New York, a village within the town
  • Candor, North Carolina
  • Candor, Oise, France
  • Candour (magazine), a British far-right-wing magazine
  • Duty of candor
  • Parrhesia, the obligation to speak candidly in rhetoric
  • "Candour", a song by Neck Deep from their 2014 album Wishful Thinking

Usage examples of "candor".

Abigail, who in her letters to her sister Mary was to provide an inside look at the Adams presidency like no other, much as she had in portraying their life in France and London years before, writing always to the moment and with untrammeled candor.

Jefferson remained at Monticello, Adams at his farm, which he had lately taken to calling Stoneyfield, instead of Peacefield, perhaps feeling the new name was more in keeping with New England candor, or that it better defined the look of the political landscape at the moment.

The affection Adams felt for Jefferson was expressed repeatedly and often with touching candor.

The letters of John and Abigail Adams number in the thousands, and because they both wrote with such consistent candor and in such vivid detail, it is possible to know them--to go beneath the surface of their lives--to an extent not possible with other protagonists of the time.

He could just make out the gaps in distant cliffs that marked the entrances to other canyons: Ius Chasma to the west, Candor to the north, Coprates to the east.

Lord Diegan met and held those blue eyes, that could seem inhumanly assured in their candor.

The ship was sailing south again, tacking into the mild southwestern wind, heading back toward the broad opening where Candor Chasma opened into the Valles Marineris at the place called Meles Chasma.

He was, like his namesake, an American, and with the same pure loyalty and unpartisan candor.

While he displayed the same candor with me during my first Attica visit over seven years later, the medication he was on seemed to make him, on the surface at least, a lot less desperate for the attention he was clearly reveling in after his arrest.

Homoeopathy has come before our public at a period when the growing spirit of eclecticism has prepared many ingenious and honest minds to listen to all new doctrines with a candor liable to degenerate into weakness.

I must in candor declare, that it is very probable the contagion was conveyed, in some instances, by myself, though I took every possible care to prevent such a thing from happening, the moment that I ascertained that the distemper was infectious.

The candor of this report amplifies its value far beyond the ordinary.

The few who have pursued this inquiry with more candor and impartiality, are of opinion, ^105 that the apostles declined the office of legislation, and rather chose to endure some partial scandals and divisions, than to exclude the Christians of a future age from the liberty of varying their forms of ecclesiastical government according to the changes of times and circumstances.

As it became obvious to the other Hrrubans that the Terrans were acting with great candor and understanding compared with the fierce suspicions and covert aggressiveness constantly underlying Third's objections, Third began to lose control of his supporters.

The choice of his ministers was in many instances justly censured, and the dissastified dissatisfied people, with their usual candor, accused at once his indolent tameness and his excessive severity.