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+ ==Etymology==
+ First recorded in the 1530s,^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate) [[bor|frm|sincere]],^(MW Collegiate)^(Wiktionary) [[der|la|sincērus|t=whole, clean, pure; genuine]],^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) a word of uncertain origin.^(Etymonline) It may come from Proto-Indo-European ''*sem-'' “one” + the root of Latin ''crēscere'' “to grow”, i.e. originally “of one growth, unmixed”.^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate)^(Wiktionary)
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+ The popular story that it means “without wax” (Latin ''sine cērā'') has no etymological justification.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}