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Forthrightness   Listen
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Forthrightness  n.  Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness. (Archaic) "Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Forthrightness" Quotes from Famous Books



... such a man makes is indeed, as Milton called it, "the precious lifeblood of a master spirit." Theirs is a true immortality, for it is their soul, and not their talent, that survives in their work. Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase, which to that of most other poets is as a stab[260] to a blow with a cudgel, the vigor of his thought, the beauty of his images, the refinement of his conception of spiritual things, are marvellous if we compare ...
— Among My Books • James Russell Lowell



Words linked to "Forthrightness" :   honestness, candor, ingenuousness, forthright, honesty, frankness



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