Veracious

3 definitions found

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

  Veracious \Ve*ra"cious\, a. [L. verax, -acis, fr. verus true.
     See {Very}.]
     1. Observant of truth; habitually speaking truth; truthful;
        as, veracious historian.
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              The Spirit is most perfectly and absolutely
              veracious.                            --Barrow.
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     2. Characterized by truth; true; not false; as, a veracious
        account or narrative.
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              The young, ardent soul that enters on this world
              with heroic purpose, with veracious insight, will
              find it a mad one.                    --Carlyle.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  veracious
       adj 1: habitually speaking the truth; "an honest man"; "a veracious
              witness" [syn: {honest}]
       2: precisely accurate; "a veracious account"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "veracious":
     actual, ascertained, attested, authenticated, categorically true,
     certain, certified, confirmed, corroborated, demonstrated,
     determined, direct, documentary, effectual, established, factual,
     historical, not in error, objectively true, proved, real,
     substantiated, sure-enough, true, true as gospel, true-meaning,
     true-speaking, true-tongued, truth-bearing, truth-declaring,
     truth-desiring, truth-filled, truth-guarding, truth-loving,
     truth-passing, truth-speaking, truth-telling, truthful, unconfuted,
     undeceitful, undeceptive, undenied, undoubted, unerroneous,
     unfallacious, unfalse, unmistaken, unquestionable, unrefuted,
     valid, validated, veridical, verified, veritable