5 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Truth \Truth\, n.; pl {Truths}. [OE. treuthe trouthe, treowpe
AS tre['o]w?. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Truth \Truth\, v. t.
To assert as true; to declare. [R.]
Had they [the ancients] dreamt this they would have
truthed it heaven. --Ford.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
truth
n 1: a fact that has been verified; "at last he knew the truth";
"the truth is the he didn't want to do it"
2: 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: {verity}] [ant: {falsity}]
3: a true statement; "he told the truth"; "he thought of
answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe
it" [syn: {true statement}] [ant: {falsehood}]
4: the quality of being accurate and without error; "the lawyer
questioned the accuracy of my account"; "he was beginning
to doubt the truth of his compass" [syn: {accuracy}] [ant:
{inaccuracy}]
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Truth
Used in various senses in Scripture. In Prov. 12:17, 19, it
denotes that which is opposed to falsehood. In Isa. 59:14, 15,
Jer. 7:28, it means fidelity or truthfulness. The doctrine of
Christ is called "the truth of the gospel" (Gal. 2:5), "the
truth" (2 Tim. 3:7; 4:4). Our Lord says of himself, "I am the
way and the truth" (John 14:6).
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
TRUTH, n. An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the
most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of
existing with increasing activity to the end of time.
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