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noun
- (archaic) The state or quality of being true to someone or something; faithfulness, fidelity.
- Truth to one's own feelings is all-important in life.
- (obsolete) A pledge of loyalty or faith.
- Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
- There was some in his statement that he had no other choice.
- True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
- The is that our leaders knew a lot more than they were letting on.
- That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or "genuine" reality.
- Alcoholism and redemption led me finally to .
- 1820: Beauty is , truth beauty, - that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. " John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
- Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
- Hunger and jealousy are just eternal truths of human existence.
- 1813: It is a universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. " Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Translations: - Dutch: waarheid
- French: vérité(fr)f
- German: Wahrheit(de)f
- Italian: verití
- Spanish: verdad
Etymology: From triewí, trÄewí, treowí, trÄowí, corresponding to true + -th.
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