To make frank, honest, or straightforward; to speak or act with complete honesty.
Combines 'frank' with the suffix '-ify' (from Latin 'facere' meaning 'to make'), creating a verb meaning 'to make frank.' This suffix productively creates verbs meaning 'to cause to become' or 'to treat as,' as in 'beautify' or 'classify.'
The '-ify' suffix is borrowed from Latin and became super popular in English around the 16th-17th centuries—before that, English mainly used '-en' to create verbs like 'brighten.' The shift shows how English absorbed new word-building patterns through French and Latin influence.
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