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Verity

noun

(pl. verities)

Conformity to reality or actuality. Synonyms: the true, trueness, truth. "The situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat" , "He was famous for the truth of his portraits" , "He turned to religion in his search for eternal verities"

An enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth.

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... ears. The coarse nature of the officer had long ago lost whatever elements of softness there might have been to develop in a gentler occupation. As for the owner of the store, he was not sufficiently sensitive to feel the verity in the accents of the speaker. Moreover, he was a man who followed the conventional, with never a distraction due to imagination and sympathy. Just now, too, he was experiencing a keen irritation against himself because of the manner in which he had been sensible ...

— Within the Law - From the Play of Bayard Veiller • Marvin Dana

... sight of the wall stretched across the valley, he rubbed his eyes, and looked at it again and again, scarcely able to credit his senses. He was sure it was not there a few hours before, and he could not comprehend what it could mean; but it was a verity, and his experience told him that it could be the work of no one except the Indians, who had ...

— The Huge Hunter - Or, the Steam Man of the Prairies • Edward S. Ellis

... to us with all the authority of historical verity, and subsequent evidences of its accuracy have been discovered. The age was characterized by inhumanity of the most barbarous kind, and this crime ...

— Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad • Various

... call it Platz, I will be bold and state my view; It's not a place at all - and that's The bottom verity, my Dew. ...

— The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 1 • Robert Louis Stevenson

... and thoughtful, moved about the shanty. Her mind was upon one subject—she must save Ben Letts from the dreaded rope. She did not question the verity of her brother's statement, for she realized that Ben was not only capable of killing the inspector, but also of placing the guilt upon an innocent man. It did not, however, change her squatter love. The more she thought of Ben's danger, the more she loved and wanted to save him, the ...

— Tess of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White

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