verity
See also: Verity
English
Etymology
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Borrowing from Anglo-Norman verité or Middle French verité, from Old French verité, from Latin vēritās, from the adjective vērus (“true”).
Pronunciation
Noun
verity (countable and uncountable, plural verities)
- (archaic) Truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth.
- 1602 : William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 2
- [...] but in the verity of extolment
- I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion
- of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of
- him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would
- trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:
- For the assured truth of things is derived from the principles of knowledg, and causes which determine their verities.
- 1602 : William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 2
- A true statement; an established doctrine.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 290-1:
- Absolutist verities were not only being challenged in more systematic and more daring forms than hitherto; the parameters of political debate were also being widened by both government and its critics.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 290-1:
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