From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Verity \Ver"i*ty\, noun; pl. {Verities}. [F. v['e]rit['e], 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: 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" [syn: {truth}, {the true}] [ant: {falsity}]
2: an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "verity": absolute credibility, actuality, credibility, eternal verities, fact, good sooth, gospel, historical truth, historicity, reality, sooth, the true, trueness, truism, truth, truth-loving, truth-speaking, truth-telling, truthfulness, ultimate truth, unerroneousness, unfallaciousness, unfalseness, veraciousness, veracity, veridicality, very truth
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