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truthful, a.|ˈtruːθfʊl|
[f. truth n. + -ful.]
1. Of statements, etc.: Full of truth; sincere. (Now only as transf. from 2.)
1596R. L[inche] Diella xiii, My truthfull pleadings will not cause you rue. Mod. A perfectly honest and truthful statement.
2. Of persons (or their attributes): Disposed to tell, or habitually telling, the truth; free from deceitfulness; veracious. (In quot. 1787, Telling the truth, correct in statement.) Also fig. Giving true information, not deceptive (cf. 3).
1787Berington Abeill. Pref. 16, I profess to be as accurate as I can, and as truthful as the character of my records will allow. 1816Scott Antiq. xx, What my poverty takes awa frae the weight o' my counsel, grey hairs and a truthfu' heart should add it twenty times. 1860W. G. Ward Nat. & Grace i. 109 He has given us faculties, which are truthful and not mendacious. 1865Max Müller Chips (1880) I. i. 16 In order to discover truth, we must be truthful ourselves. 1866Reade G. Gaunt (ed. 2) III. 39 Before he got into this mess he was a singularly truthful person; but now a lie was nothing to him.
3. Of ideas, artistic representation, etc.: Characterized by truth; corresponding with fact or reality; true, accurate, exact.
1859[implied in truthfulness]. 1868E. Edwards Ralegh I. x. 163 For a long period, the truthful knowledge of what Spaniards had really achieved was slight. 1871Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann., Suppl. June 9 A beautifully executed and truthful portrait. 1885Swinburne Misc. (1886) 294 There is none left..whose bright and sweet invention is so fruitful, so truthful, or so delightful as Mrs. Molesworth's. |