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1 definition 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.
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