honest vagaries
the silver dollar trees at my grandmothers house, never looked like this, but i wish they did:
i'm done kidding myself for now.
etym.:c.1300, "respectable, decent, of neat appearance," also "free from fraud," from O.Fr. honeste (12c.), from L. honestus "honorable, respected," from honos (see honor). Main modern sense of "dealing fairly, truthful" is c.1400, as is sense of "virtuous."
n.b. my friends: a comma separates that that "dealing fairly" from the "truthful". the truthful is not modified by 'fairly' in any negative sense of the word.
etym.: 1577, "a wandering, a roaming journey," probably from L. vagari "to wander, roam, be unsettled, spread abroad" from vagus "roving, wandering" (see vague). Current meaning of "eccentric notion or conduct" (1629) is from notion of mental wandering.
thanks...
i'm done kidding myself for now.
etym.:c.1300, "respectable, decent, of neat appearance," also "free from fraud," from O.Fr. honeste (12c.), from L. honestus "honorable, respected," from honos (see honor). Main modern sense of "dealing fairly, truthful" is c.1400, as is sense of "virtuous."
n.b. my friends: a comma separates that that "dealing fairly" from the "truthful". the truthful is not modified by 'fairly' in any negative sense of the word.
etym.: 1577, "a wandering, a roaming journey," probably from L. vagari "to wander, roam, be unsettled, spread abroad" from vagus "roving, wandering" (see vague). Current meaning of "eccentric notion or conduct" (1629) is from notion of mental wandering.
thanks...