What is straightforwardness; explicitness; directness. [Archaic] Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase. Hawthorne called?
forthrightness — Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness. [Archaic] Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase. Hawthorne. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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