Plainness
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Plainness - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
PLA'INNESS, n. Levelness; evenness or surface.
1. Want of ornament; want of artificial show.
So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
2. Openness; rough, blunt or unrefined frankness.
Your plainness and your shortness please me well.
3. Artlessness; simplicity; candor; as unthinking plainness.
4. Clearness; openness; sincerity.
Seeing then we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech. 2 Cor 3.
Source of the article
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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