Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

sincerity, candor, unreserve†, honesty, fidelity; plain dealing, bona fides [Lat.]; love of truth; probity &c 939; ingenuousness &c (artlessness) 703. the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth; honest truth, sober truth &c (fact) 494; unvarnished tale; light of truth. V. speak the truth, tell the truth; speak by the card; paint in its true colors, show oneself in one's true colors; make a clean breast &c (disclose) 529; speak one's mind &c (be blunt) 703; not lie &c 544, not deceive &c 545. Adj. truthful, true; veracious, veridical; scrupulous &c (honorable) 939; sincere, candid, frank, open, straightforward, unreserved; open hearted, true hearted, simple-hearted; honest, trustworthy; undissembling &c (dissemble) &c 544 [Obs.]; guileless, pure; truth- loving; unperjured†; true blue, as good as one's word; unaffected, unfeigned, bona fide; outspoken, ingenuous &c (artless) 703; undisguised &c (real) 494. uncontrived. Adv. truly &c (really) 494; in plain words &c 703; in truth, with truth, of a truth, in good truth; as the dial to the sun, as the needle to the pole; honor bright; troth; in good sooth†, in good earnest; unfeignedly, with no nonsense, in sooth†, sooth to say†, bona fide, in foro conscientiae [Lat.]; without equivocation; cartes sur table, from the bottom of one's heart; by my troth &c (affirmation) 535. Phr. di il vero a affronterai il diavolo [It]; Dichtung und Wahrheit [G.]; esto quod esse videris [Lat.]; magna est veritas et praevalet [Lat.]; that golden key that opes the palace of eternity [Milton]; veritas odium parit [Lat.]; veritatis simplex oratio est [Lat.]; verite sans peur [Fr.].