Verity

3 definitions found

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

  Verity \Ver"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Verities}. [F. v['e]rit['e], L.
     veritas, fr. verus true. See {Very}.]
     1. The quality or state of being true, or real; consonance of
        a statement, proposition, or other thing, with fact;
        truth; reality. "The verity of certain words." --Shak.
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              It is a proposition of eternal verity, that none can
              govern while he is despised.          --South.
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     2. That which is true; a true assertion or tenet; a truth; a
        reality.
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              Mark what I say, which you shall find
              By every syllable a faithful verity.  --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  verity
       n 1: conformity to reality or actuality; "they debated the truth
            of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us
            the blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous
            for the truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion
            in his search for eternal verities" [syn: {truth}, {the
            true}] [ant: {falsity}]
       2: an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic
          truth

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

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "verity":
     absolute credibility, actuality, credibility, eternal verities,
     fact, good sooth, gospel, historical truth, historicity, reality,
     sooth, the true, trueness, truism, truth, truth-loving,
     truth-speaking, truth-telling, truthfulness, ultimate truth,
     unerroneousness, unfallaciousness, unfalseness, veraciousness,
     veracity, veridicality, very truth