Crossword clues for verities
verities
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Verity \Ver"i*ty\, n.; pl. Verities. [F. v['e]rit['e], L. veritas, fr. verus true. See Very.]
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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.
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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.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of verity English)
Usage examples of "verities".
I've been given all the verities, beginning at my mother's knee and continuing on to the heads of the Jesuit fathers.
We found our strength in the basic verities, to which you, as a patrician, must surely subscribe.
As a rule, he presented the sky, forest, flower, stream, animal, and the composite landscape, only as they served to illumine the eternal verities, and the one verity toward which nature most frequently pointed was death.
His strict Puritan training causes him to present the eternal verities in his poetry.