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honesty (iou) and Band Aid (oh)


honesty (iou)



honesty noun. ME.
[Old French (h)oneste from Latin honestas, from honestus HONEST adjective: see -TY1.]
I. The quality of being honest.
Honour gained or conferred; repute, respect; respectability. ME-E17.
Appropriateness; decency, decorum. obsolete exc. Scot. LME.
a. Moral excellence; honourable character; spec. virtue, chastity, esp. of a woman. LME-M17.
b. Generosity, liberality, hospitality. LME-E19.
Integrity, uprightness, truthfulness, sincerity. L16.
E. M. Forster He had a strong regard for honesty, and his word, once given, had always been kept.
II.
A cruciferous plant, Lunaria annua, much grown for its purple or white flowers and round semi-transparent seed-pods. L16.
Phrases: in the way of honesty: see WAY noun.

Band Aid (oh)



trademark
an organization set up by Bob Geldof in 1984 to collect money for people dying of hunger in Ethiopia. This was done by getting many famous popular musicians to make a record together called Do They Know It's Christmas?, and by organizing the Live Aid concerts in London and Philadelphia.