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Truth   /truθ/   Listen
noun
Truth  n.  (pl. truths)  
1.
The quality or being true; as:
(a)
Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.
(b)
Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like. "Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork."
(c)
Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness. "Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth."
(d)
The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity. "If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth."
2.
That which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality. "Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor." "I long to know the truth here of at large." "The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material."
3.
A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals. "Even so our boasting... is found a truth."
4.
Righteousness; true religion. "Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." "Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth."
In truth, in reality; in fact.
Of a truth, in reality; certainly.
To do truth, to practice what God commands. "He that doeth truth cometh to the light."


verb
Truth  v. t.  To assert as true; to declare. (R.) "Had they (the ancients) dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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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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