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/vˈɛrəti/ /vˈɛrɪti/ Listen

noun

Verity n. (pl. verities)

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." "It is a proposition of eternal verity, that none can govern while he is despised."

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 verity."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Verity" Quotes from Famous Books

... twig is bent, the tree's inclined," Is an adage often recall'd to mind, Referring to juvenile bias: And never so well is the verity seen, As when to the weak, warp'd side we lean, While Life's tempests and ...

— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood

... fellow, Thy general is my lover: I have been The book of his good acts, whence men have read His fame unparallel'd, haply amplified; For I have ever verified my friends,— Of whom he's chief,—with all the size that verity Would without lapsing suffer: nay, sometimes, Like to a bowl upon a subtle ground, I have tumbled past the throw: and in his praise Have almost stamp'd the leasing: therefore, fellow, I ...

— The Tragedy of Coriolanus • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]

... therefore laid down as an axiom, that God's judgments far transcend human understanding. Such a doctrine might well have sufficed to conceal the truth from the human race for all eternity, if mathematics had not furnished another standard of verity in considering solely the essence and properties of figures without regard to their final causes. There are other reasons (which I need not mention here) besides mathematics, which might have caused men's minds to be directed to these general prejudices, and have ...

— The Ethics • Benedict de Spinoza

... that Shakespeare has unnecessarily made his loveliest character utter a lie?—Or shall we dare think that, where to deceive was necessary, he thought a pretended verbal verity a double crime, equally with the other a lie to the hearer, and at the same time an attempt to ...

— Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher • S. T. Coleridge

... Wyoming greater than were those connected with the irruption into and destruction of Cherry Valley, as the reader will discover in the course of the ensuing pages. Indeed, the writer, in preparation of materials for this work, has encountered so much that is false recorded in history as sober verity, that he has at times been disposed almost to universal scepticism in regard ...

— The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 - From 1620-1816 • Edgerton Ryerson

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