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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Truth \Truth\, n.; pl. {Truths}. [OE. treuthe, trouthe, treowpe,
     AS. tre['o]w?. See {True}; cf. {Troth}, {Betroth}.]
     1. The quality or being true; as:
        (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with
            that which is, or has been; or shall be.
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        (b) Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence
            with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the
            like.
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                  Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of
                  the ironwork.                     --Mortimer.
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        (c) Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.
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                  Alas! they had been friends in youth,
                  But whispering tongues can poison truth.
                                                    --Coleridge.
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        (d) The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from
            falsehood; veracity.
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                  If this will not suffice, it must appear
                  That malice bears down truth.     --Shak.
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     2. That which is true or certain concerning any matter or
        subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of
        things; fact; verity; reality.
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              Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor.
                                                    --Zech. viii.
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              I long to know the truth here of at large. --Shak.
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              The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a
              legitimate deduction from all the facts which are
              truly material.                       --Coleridge.
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     3. A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or
        proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the
        like; as, the great truths of morals.
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              Even so our boasting . . . is found a truth. --2
                                                    Cor. vii. 14.
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     4. Righteousness; true religion.
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              Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. --John i. 17.
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              Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.
                                                    --John xvii.
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     {In truth}, in reality; in fact.
  
     {Of a truth}, in reality; certainly.
  
     {To do truth}, to practice what God commands.
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              He that doeth truth cometh to the light. --John iii.
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