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harakore

1. (stative) be innocent, blameless, faultless, guiltless, honest, not guilty, sinless.

E hara ana, e harakore ana rānei, te herehere? (MM.TKM 29/2/1856:13). / Do you find the prisoner guilty or not guilty?

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2. (modifier) innocent, blameless, faultless, guiltless, honest, not guilty, sinless.

Kīhai tēnei i homai hei taonga mō te tangata harakore, engari mō te tangata hara hei whakakaha i te ngoikore o te tangata (TP 2/1907:2). / This was not given as a gift for an innocent person, but for the sinful person to strengthen a person's weakness.

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3. (noun) without offence, innocence, blamelessness, faultlessness, guiltlessness, honesty, sinlessness.

Ko te hiahia tonu tēnei o te Kuīni, o ngā Kāwana katoa, me ngā Rūnanga Pākehā, kia noho tahi ai tātou i runga i te harakore (TMT 15/5/1861:7). / This has been the continuing desire of the Queen, of all the Governors, and of the Pākehā Assemblies, that we should all live together without offence.

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ngākaupono

1. (noun) honesty, allegiance, loyalty, good faith.

Nā te noho a Tukumana i roto i ngā iwi he karanga ingoa noa te kaha o te ngākaupono ki te Kīngitanga, nāna a ia i kukume atu ki ngā take o taua kaupapa (TTR 1996:232). / Because Tukumana lived among tribes that owed nominal allegiance to the King movement, he was was drawn into the affairs that movement.

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Synonyms: pirihongo, ngākau pono, piri, piripono

pononga

1. (modifier) true, genuine, unfeigned, honest, serious.

Ka parau kau tana kupu, kia haere ia ki te patu i tana mōkai, kia kīia ai e ngā tāngata, e haere pononga ana ki te patu i tana mōkai (NM 1928:142). / His words feigned that he would go to beat his servant, so that the people would say that he was really going to punish his servant.

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2. (noun) honesty, truthfulness, genuineness.

Kāore ahau e raparapa i tōu pononga (Ng 1993:208). / I'm not in doubt about your honesty.

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tapatahi

1. (verb) to have one aspect, be united, single, sound, upright, principled.

Kia tapatahi tōku ngākau ki āu tikanga; kei whakamā ahau (PT Nga Waiata 119:80). / Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.

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2. (modifier) folded once, having one aspect, united, single.

Pū ngātahi ai te ngākau tapatahi me te pukumahi i te wahine nei, i riwhariwha nei te whatumanawa i te matenga o te maha o tōna whānau (TTR 2000:30). / This woman combined integrity with hard work, despite a heart scarred by the deaths of many of her family.

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Synonyms: tōtahi, takakau, tahi, kotahi, kōtahitahi, takitahi


3. (noun) uprightness, honesty, righteousness, vitue.

He pai ki te rawakore e haere ana i runga i tōna tapatahi, i te tangata he parori kē ōna ara, ahakoa he whai taonga ia (PT Nga Whakatauki 28:6). / Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

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Synonyms: ngākaupai, tika


4. (noun) small fish basket  - made of toetoe leaves for holding fish.

E rua tapatahi inanga, ka hoatu ēnā ki te aroaro o Kahu rātou ko ōna hoa tohunga (W 1971:383). / There were two baskets of whitebait, and those were placed in front of Kahu and his fiends.

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