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VERITY
verity
(noun) an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth
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
verity (countable and uncountable, plural verities)
(archaic) Truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth.
A true statement; an established doctrine.
Proper noun
Verity
A female given name from English derived from the Latin for truth; one of the Puritan virtue names.
Source: Wiktionary
Ver"i*ty, n.; pl. Verities. Etym: [F. vérité, L. veritas, fr. verus true. See Very.]
1. The quality or state of being true, or real; consonance of a statement, proposition, or other thing, with fact; truth; reality. "The verity of certain words." Shak. It is a proposition of eternal verity, that none can govern while he is despised. South.
2. That which is true; a true assertion or tenet; a truth; a reality. Mark what I say, which you shall find By every syllable a faithful verity. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DERMATOGLYPHICS
(noun) the study of the whorls and loops and arches in the fingertips and on the palms of the hand and the soles of the feet; “some criminologists specialize in dermatoglyphics”
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