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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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