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Verity

//ˈvɛɹɪti// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name from English derived from the Latin for truth; one of the Puritan virtue names.
Noun
  1. 1
    Truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth; veracity. countable, uncommon, uncountable

    "[...] but in the verity of extolment I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more."

  2. 2
    an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth wordnet
  3. 3
    A true statement; an established doctrine. countable, uncountable

    "Absolutist verities were not only being challenged in more systematic and more daring forms than hitherto; the parameters of political debate were also being widened by both government and its critics."

  4. 4
    conformity to reality or actuality wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English verite, from Anglo-Norman verité or Middle French verité, from Old French verité, from Latin vēritās, from the adjective vērus (“true”).

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