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verity

noun
/ˈvɛɹɪti/

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”).

  1. derived from vēritās
  2. derived from verité
  3. derived from verité
  4. derived from verité
  5. inherited from verite

Definitions

  1. Truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth

    Truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth; veracity.

    • For the assured truth of things is derived from the principles of knowledg, and causes which determine their verities.
    • I was moving into the biblical phase of the afternoon, the peak of my new simplicity. A verity less than eternal had little appeal.

  2. A true statement

    A true statement; an established doctrine.

    • 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.

  3. A female given name from English derived from the Latin for truth

    A female given name from English derived from the Latin for truth; one of the Puritan virtue names.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for verity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA