TRUTH

accuracy, truth

(noun) the quality of being near to the true value; “he was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass”; “the lawyer questioned the truth of my account”

truth

(noun) a fact that has been verified; “at last he knew the truth”; “the truth is that he didn’t want to do it”

truth, true statement

(noun) a true statement; “he told the truth”; “he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn’t believe it”

Truth, Sojourner Truth

(noun) United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)

truth, the true, verity, trueness

(noun) conformity to reality or actuality; “they debated the truth of the proposition”; “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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

truth (usually uncountable, plural truths)

True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.

Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.

The state or quality of being true to someone or something.

(archaic) Faithfulness, fidelity.

(obsolete) A pledge of loyalty or faith.

Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.

That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.

(countable) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.

(physics, dated) Topness; the property of a truth quark.

Synonyms

• See truth

Antonyms

• falsehood, falsity, lie, nonsense, drivel, untruth, half-truth

Verb

truth (third-person singular simple present truths, present participle truthing, simple past and past participle truthed)

(obsolete, transitive) To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully.

To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.

(nonstandard, intransitive) To tell the truth.

Anagrams

• Hurtt

Source: Wiktionary

Truth, n.; pl. Truths. Etym: [OE. treuthe, trouthe, treowpe, AS. treów. See True; cf. Troth, Betroth.]

1. The quality or being true; as: -- (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be. (b) Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like. Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork. Mortimer.

(c) Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness. Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth. Coleridge.

(d) The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity. If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. Shak.

2. That which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality. Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor. Zech. viii. 16. I long to know the truth here of at large. Shak. The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material. Coleridge.

3. A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals. Even so our boasting . . . is found a truth. 2 Cor. vii. 14.

4. Righteousness; true religion. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. John i. 17. Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth. John xvii. 17. In truth, in reality; in fact.

– Of a truth, in reality; certainly.

– To do truth, to practice what God commands. He that doeth truth cometh to the light. John iii. 21.

Truth, v. t.

Definition: To assert as true; to declare. [R.] Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven. Ford.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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