Verity
['verɪtɪ] or ['vɛrəti]
Definition
(noun.) an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth.
Edited by Ivan--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being true, or real; consonance of a statement, proposition, or other thing, with fact; truth; reality.
(n.) That which is true; a true assertion or tenet; a truth; a reality.
Editor: Ned
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Truth, truthfulness.[2]. True statement, true assertion.
Typist: Virginia
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Truth, reality, actuality, in_existence
ANT:Falsity, unreality, supposition, hypothesis, conjecture, chimera, dream,delusion, fancy, phantasy
Typist: Nadine
Definition
n. the quality of being true or real: truth: a true assertion or tenet: (Shak.) honesty:—pl. Ver′ities.—adj. Ver′itable true: according to fact: real: actual.—adv. Ver′itably.—Of a verity certainly.
Edited by Faye
Examples
- Such was the march of my discovery, in which I was not assisted in any way by the knowledge that the conclusion at which I aimed was a verity. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Verity, whose firm built many of the fixtures for the Edison Company, and constructed the notable electroliers shown at the Crystal Palace Exposition of 1882. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Nevertheless, it is of verity that they assemble a camp, and raise a bank against the walls of this castle. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Sarkoja is a liar of the first magnitude, I replied, notwithstanding the proud claim of the Tharks to absolute verity. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Editor: Mamie