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veracious, a.|vəˈreɪʃəs|
[f. L. vērāc-, vērax according to truth, that speaks the truth + -ious. Cf. next.]
1. Habitually speaking or disposed to speak the truth; observant of the truth; truthful.
a1677Barrow Serm. (1686) II. 63 That God is good, veracious, and faithfull. 1778Johnson L. P., Swift (1781) III. 409 The credit of the writers, both undoubtedly veracious. 1820Shelley Hymn Merc. lxii, I am a most veracious person, and Totally unacquainted with untruth. 1839Dickens Nich. Nick. xxviii, The testimony of the two veracious and competent witnesses. 1864Bowen Logic xiii. 431 A witness is presumed to be veracious in this case, in proportion as his love of truth is already established from others.
2. Characterized by veracity, truthfulness, or honesty; conforming to truth; true, accurate.
1777Johnson Let. to Mrs. Thrale 27 Oct., Is not my soul laid open in these veracious pages? 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) V. 718 The testimony which has served as the instrument of the mischief, has been..veracious. 1868W. R. Greg Lit. & Soc. Judgm. 400 He..showed His back but not His face to Moses; and dictated the veracious narrative of Balaam and his ass. a1871De Morgan Budget Parad. (1872) 250 That it was the most veracious of books written by the most honest of men.
3. That estimates or judges truly or correctly.
1851Carlyle Sterling i. v, The young ardent soul that enters on this world..with veracious insight,..will find this world a very mad one.
Hence veˈraciously adv., veˈraciousness.
1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. vii. 405 In Shakspeare, it was fiction, to lay the murder of Duncan, at a place different from Bothgowanan, where the Chronicle has veraciously fixed it. 1860I. Taylor Sp. Hebr. Poetry (1873) 63 The veraciousness of the record. 1879Morley Burke v. 97 Burke's habitual veraciousness. 1905Athenæum 25 Nov. 719/1 How diplomatists plot..is veraciously related. |