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Answer for the clue "Truthful nature ", 6 letters:
verity

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth. 2 A true statement; an established doctrine.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Verity is both a given name and a surname. Verity may also refer to: A synonym of " truth " Verity (statue) , a statue by Damien Hirst in Ilfracombe, UK Verity Records , a music label Verity! , a podcast Team Verity , a Team

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE eternal ▪ Meditation corrects life's errors of parallax, for it contrasts the present the eternal against verities of one's own being. ▪ A politician invited to make the wedding speech can be relied upon to dish ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Anglo-French and Old French verite "truth, sincerity, loyalty" (12c.), from Latin veritatem (nominative veritas ) "truth, truthfulness," from verus "true" (see very ). Modern French vérité , literally "truth," was borrowed into English 1966 ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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 ...

Usage examples of verity.

Inasmuch as all uses or truths and goods of charity, which a man renders to the neighbor may be rendered either according to the appearance or according to the verities of the Word, he is in fallacies if he renders them according to the appearances he has confirmed, but renders them as he should if he does so in accord with the verities.

Thirdly, the doctrine of a judicial metempsychosis was most profoundly rooted in the popular faith, as a strict verity, throughout the great East, ages before the time of Plato, and was familiarly known throughout Greece in his time.

Verity because of all that she missed, all that she was so near to obtaining.

Fergus Reith, full of the best breakfast he had eaten on Krishna, was sound asleep in the bed furnished by Shosti, Protectress of the Temple of Ultimate Verity at Senarze.

Tom jumped down from the bank and, as Sarah reined in, he seized her and Verity and dragged them down.

Although Verity did not share the passion of the true falconer, she found her breath coming short and the hand that held the reins was trembling slightly.

Sare, not at her, Sare who knelt next to pale sleeping Blaze, and Verity wondered how many times they had had this conversation before.

Verity was almost hurled from the saddle, but she snatched at the pommel and prevented herself going right over.

Amongst them all the father of the child remooved with his owne hands the stone of the Sepulchre, and found his Sonne rising up after his dead and soporiferous sleepe, whom when he beheld, he imbraced him in his armes, and presented him before the people, with great joy and consolation, and as he was wrapped and bound in his grave, so he brought him before the Judges, whereupon the wickednesse of the Servant, and, the treason of the stepdame was plainely discovered, and the verity of the matter revealed, whereby the woman was perpetually exiled, the Servant hanged on a Gallowes, and the Physitian had the Crownes, which was prepared to buy the poyson.

Apart from Miss Eleanor, a most undemonstrative person, and Doll, no-one had touched her in friendship since Miss Verity had given her that impulsive and dangerous hug, many months before.

Queen Verity once told me it hurt like daggers to go unmilked for even a few hours past ripeness, and this queen.

Indulgence to the effect following, namely, that as long as they continue in the verity of the faith, the unity of the Holy Roman Church, in obedience and in devotion to your holiness and your successors, the Chief Pontiffs of the Holy Roman Church, who shall be canonically elected, so long a suitable Confessor chosen by them shall have power under the authority of the Apostolic See to grant to them when in articulo mortis full remission of all sin which they may have confessed with contrition of heart.

But Verity had already cut the strips of cloth tying Cyn to the bed, and he gratefully swung up into the vertical, working the numbness out of his wrists.

Verity had begged John for a solar car, told him that they could probably find one pretty easily right over in Dayton, but he just shook his head and said they had to stick to bikes and horses.

Verity saw the fear in his face and remembered how wary he was of Dayton, how, when he had to go, he flitted in and out of the deserted shops, looking nervously over his shoulder all the while.