candeur

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin candor (“white”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɑ̃.dœʁ/
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Noun

candeur f (plural candeurs)

  1. purity
  2. confidence
  3. honesty; candour
    Near-synonyms: franchise, honnêteté
    • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:
      Parce que des lèvres libertines ou vénales lui avaient murmuré des phrases pareilles, il ne croyait que faiblement à la candeur de celles-là; on en devait rabattre, pensait-il, les discours exagérés cachant les affections médiocres; […] .
      Because lips libertine and and venal had murmured such words to him, he believed but little in the candour of hers; […] .

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