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Definition of verity :
1. That which is true; a true assertion or tenet; a truth; a reality.
2. The quality or state of being true, or real; consonance of a statement, proposition, or other thing, with fact; truth; reality.
Synonyms:
factuality, frankness, the honest truth, probity, loyalty, sooth, candor, trueness, truthfulness, exactness, the true, conventional/received/traditional wisdom, integrity, exactitude, objectivity, reality, veraciousness, ingenuousness, substance, correctness, fidelity, true, veridicality, the gospel truth, accuracy, true statement, facticity
truth (part of speech: noun)
actuality, study at truth, definiteness, truth, verisimilitude, absoluteness, authenticity, matter-of-factness, rightness, veracity, honesty, fact, proof, axiom, certainty, gospel
Usage examples:
- Keep yourself well in hand, for of a verity our work is cut out for us here!" - "The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley", James Otis.
- In Marie Tudor they cannot be said to be introduced at all; the drama is one masterly compound of abominable horror; horror for horror's sake- for the sake of chiaroscuro, of colour, of the footlights, of the actors; not in the least in any visible interest of human nature, of moral verity, of the discrimination of character. - "Views and Reviews", Henry James.
- Too late in sad verity! - "Dreamers of the Ghetto", I. Zangwill.