love and happy and cherished family life, a sense to which there is an increasing
tendency to restrict the
word--desirably so, since we have other words to denote the mere dwelling-place; we say "The wretched
tenement could not be called
home," or "The humble cabin was dear to him as the
home of his childhood."
Home's not merely four square walls, Tho with pictures hung and gilded;
Home is where affection calls--
Where its shrine the heart has builded.
Thus the word comes to signify any place of rest and peace,
and especially heaven, as the soul's peaceful and
eternal dwelling-place.
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HONEST.
Synonyms:
candid, frank, ingenuous, true, equitable, genuine, just, trustworthy, fair, good, sincere, trusty, faithful,
honorable, straightforward, upright.
One who is
honest in the ordinary sense acts or is always disposed to act with careful regard for the rights of
others, especially in matters of business or property; one who is
honorable scrupulously
observes the dictates
of a personal honor that is higher than any demands of mercantile law or public opinion, and will do nothing
unworthy of his own inherent nobility of soul. The
honest man does not steal, cheat, or defraud; the
honorable
man will not take an unfair advantage that would be allowed him, or will make a sacrifice which no one could
require of him, when his own sense of right demands it. One who is
honest in the highest and fullest sense is
scrupulously careful to adhere to all known truth and right even in thought.
In this sense honest differs from
honorable as having regard rather to absolute truth and right than to even the highest personal honor. Compare
CANDID; JUSTICE.
Antonyms:
deceitful, faithless, hypocritical, perfidious, unfaithful, dishonest, false, lying, traitorous, unscrupulous,
disingenuous,
fraudulent, mendacious, treacherous, untrue.
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HORIZONTAL.
Synonyms:
even, flat, level, plain, plane.
Horizontal signifies in the direction of or parallel to the horizon. For practical purposes
level and
horizontal
are identical, tho
level, as the more popular word, is more loosely used of that which has no especially
noticeable elevations or inequalities; as, a
level road.
Flat, according to its derivation from the Anglo-Saxon
flet, a floor,
applies to a surface only, and, in the first and most usual sense, to a surface that is
horizontal or
level in all directions; a line may be
level, a floor is
flat;
flat is also applied in a derived sense to any
plane
surface without irregularities or elevations, as a picture may be painted on the
flat surface
of a perpendicular
wall.
Plane applies only to a surface, and is used with more mathematical exactness than
flat. The adjective
plain, originally the same word as
plane, is now rarely used except in the figurative senses, but the original
sense appears in the noun, as we speak of "a wide
plain." We speak of a
horizontal line, a
flat morass, a
level
road, a
plain country, a
plane surface (especially in the scientific sense). That which is
level may not be
even,
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and that which is
even may not be
level; a
level road may be very rough; a slope may be
even.
Antonyms:
broken, inclined, rolling, rugged, sloping, hilly, irregular, rough, slanting, uneven.
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HUMANE.
Synonyms:
benevolent, compassionate, human, pitying, benignant, forgiving, kind,
sympathetic, charitable, gentle,
kind-hearted, tender, clement, gracious, merciful, tender-hearted.
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