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:b. Going straight to the [[point]], straightforward, unswerving, outspoken; also, unhesitating, dexterous. | :b. Going straight to the [[point]], straightforward, unswerving, outspoken; also, unhesitating, dexterous. | ||
*4: A straight [[course]] or path | *4: A straight [[course]] or path | ||
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*''Forthrightness'' - the [[quality]] of [[being]] forthright; straightforwardness. | *''Forthrightness'' - the [[quality]] of [[being]] forthright; straightforwardness. | ||
Revision as of 22:30, 28 February 2012
Origin
Middle English, from Old English forthriht, from forth + riht right
Definitions
- 1:a. Directly forward, in or towards the front, straight before one.
- b. Straight out, horizontally.
- 1882 A. C. Swinburne, Tristram of Lyonesse 49 "Forthright upon his steed [he] Leap"t.
- 2: Straightway, immediately, at once.
- 3:a. Proceeding in a straight course, directly in front of one, straight forward.
- b. Going straight to the point, straightforward, unswerving, outspoken; also, unhesitating, dexterous.
- 4: A straight course or path
Derivative
- 1873 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 123 Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase.
- 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. iii. xii. 225 He‥carried into his arguments that intensity and forthrightness which awaken dormant opposition.
