Truthfulness
['trʊθfəlnɪs]
Examples
- Truthfulness: they will never intentionally receive into their mind falsehood, which is their detestation, and they will love the truth. Plato. The Republic.
- A woman's standard of truthfulness was tacitly held to be lower: she was the subject creature, and versed in the arts of the enslaved. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I can do little more than offer my humble testimony to the truthfulness of Miss Halcombe's sketch of the old lady's character. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The information may be of use to you, if only to prevent your credulity, in judging another man's truthfulness by your own, from being imposed upon. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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