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Truth
Definitions
- 1 True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality. uncountable, usually
"The truth is that our leaders knew a lot more than they were letting on."
- 2 An entry posted on the Truth Social platform.
"The app's design looks like a clone of Twitter. Users can create a profile that shows who they're following. You're able to comment, share and like posts, which are called Truths."
- 3 the quality of being near to the true value wordnet
- 4 Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy. uncountable, usually
"There was some truth in his statement that he had no other choice."
- 5 a fact that has been verified wordnet
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- 6 The state or quality of being true to someone or something. uncountable, usually
"Truth to one's own feelings is all-important in life."
- 7 a true statement wordnet
- 8 Faithfulness, fidelity. archaic, uncountable, usually
"Alas! they had been friends in youth; / But whispering tongues can poison truth; […]"
- 9 conformity to reality or actuality wordnet
- 10 A pledge of loyalty or faith. obsolete, uncountable, usually
- 11 Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc. uncountable, usually
"Ploughs, […] to make them go true, […] depends much upon the truth of the ironwork."
- 12 That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality. uncountable, usually
"The truth is what is."
- 13 Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom. countable, usually
"Hunger and jealousy are just eternal truths of human existence."
- 14 Topness; the property of a truth quark. dated, uncountable, usually
- 15 In the game truth or dare, the choice to truthfully answer a question put forth. uncountable, usually
"When asked truth or dare, he picked truth."
- 1 To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully. obsolete, transitive
"c. 1636 John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven."
- 2 To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.
"A concentrated region of the agricultural test area was intensively ground truthed, not only to identify the crop types, but equally important, also to begin to determine the parameters controlling the radar energy reflected from a crop type at a particular stage of growth."
- 3 To tell the truth. intransitive, nonstandard
"You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'"
Etymology
From Middle English trouthe, truthe, trewthe, treowthe, from Old English trēowþ, trīewþ (“truth, veracity, faith, fidelity, loyalty, honour, pledge, covenant”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō (“promise, covenant, contract”), from Proto-Indo-European *drū- (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“firm, solid”), equivalent to true + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Doublet of troth. Cognate with Norwegian trygd (“trustworthiness, security, insurance”), Icelandic tryggð (“loyalty, fidelity”).
From Middle English trouthe, truthe, trewthe, treowthe, from Old English trēowþ, trīewþ (“truth, veracity, faith, fidelity, loyalty, honour, pledge, covenant”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō (“promise, covenant, contract”), from Proto-Indo-European *drū- (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“firm, solid”), equivalent to true + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Doublet of troth. Cognate with Norwegian trygd (“trustworthiness, security, insurance”), Icelandic tryggð (“loyalty, fidelity”).
From the name of the platform, Truth Social.
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