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Truth   /truθ/   Listen
Truth

noun
(pl. truths)
1.
A fact that has been verified.  "The truth is that he didn't want to do it"
2.
Conformity to reality or actuality.  Synonyms: the true, trueness, verity.  "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"
3.
A true statement.  Synonym: true statement.  "He thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it"
4.
The quality of being near to the true value.  Synonym: accuracy.  "The lawyer questioned the truth of my account"
5.
United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883).  Synonym: Sojourner Truth.



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"Truth" Quotes from Famous Books



... addition to these, we also anathematize the impious epistle which Ibas is said to have written to Maris the Persian, which denies that God the Word was incarnate of the holy Theotokos and ever-virgin Mary, and accuses Cyril, of holy memory, who taught the truth, of being a heretic and of the same sentiments with Apollinaris, and blames the first synod of Ephesus for deposing Nestorius without examination and inquiry, and calls the twelve capitula of Cyril impious and contrary ...
— A Source Book for Ancient Church History • Joseph Cullen Ayer, Jr., Ph.D.
... and done that which is not accounted lawful." For a time then Gyges was amazed at these words, and afterwards he began to entreat her that she would not bind him by necessity to make such a choice: then however, as he could not prevail with her, but saw that necessity was in truth set before him either to slay his master or to be himself slain by others, he made the choice to live himself; and he inquired further as follows: "Since thou dost compel me to take my master's life against my own ...
— The History Of Herodotus - Volume 1(of 2) • Herodotus
... alone in a world by ourselves; and the strange part of it was that we both seemed to realize the truth, although neither of us at that moment could contemplate the ...
— Princess Zara • Ross Beeckman
... so like to have you," she replied, turning to her with a luminous smile. "Now for your question. God is Spirit, and 'What the Scriptures declare Him to be—Life, Truth and Love,'" [Footnote: "'Science and Health," page 330.] she added, quoting ...
— Katherine's Sheaves • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... respect most older people, and at the same time felt pitifully sorry for him—it must be intensely humiliating to have to explain this way—and yet the only thing Oliver could do was to take the largest advantage possible of his very humiliation and straightforwardness—the truth could still do nothing at all ...
— Young People's Pride • Stephen Vincent Benet


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