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Webster 1913 Edition
Verity
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.
It is a proposition of eternal
verity
, that none can govern while he is despised. South.
2.
That which is true; a true assertion or tenet; a truth; a reality.
Mark what I say, which you shall find
By every syllable a faithful
By every syllable a faithful
verity
. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Verity
VER'ITY
,Noun.
1.
Truth; consonance of a statement, proposition or other thing to fact. 1Tim. 2.It is a proposition of eternal verity, that none can govern while he is despised.
2.
A true assertion or tenet.By this it seems to be a verity.
3.
Moral truth; agreement of the words with the thoughts.Definition 2024
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English
Proper noun
Verity
- A female given name derived from the Latin for truth; one of the Puritan virtue names.
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English
Noun
verity (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: