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verity|ˈvɛrɪtɪ|
Forms: 5 varyte, Sc. weryte, 5–6 verite, Sc. veryte, 6 veritee, Sc. varite; 5–6 Sc. veretie, 6 veritye, verytie, ueritie, Sc. werietie, weratie, 6–7 veritie, Sc. verritie, 7– verity.
[a. AF. and OF. verite, veritet (mod.F. vérité, = It. verità, Prov. veritat, vertat, verdad, Sp. verdad, Pg. verdade):—L. vēritāt-, vēritās, f. vēr-us true, very a.: see -ity.
App. not in common use in the 18th cent., but revived in the 19th.]
1. Without article. Truth, either in general or with reference to a particular fact; conformity to fact or reality. Also personif.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints i. (Peter) 254 Bot-gyf þat pece be and concorde, to fynd veryte In-to na thing may be profyte. 1422Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. 161 Verite getyth hatredyn. Ibid., Verite [is] caste doune, whan any vnryghtly thynge is preferrid to trouthe. c1470Henry Wallace viii. 1406 And verite war seyn, That ye me luffyt, I awcht yow luff agayn. 1540–1Elyot Image Gov. 87 Than demaunded he of hym, what thyng he professed. He aunswered: Veritee. 1579W. Fulke Confut. Sanders 577 Betweene veritie & falsitie there is no meane. 1642H. More Song of Soul ii. iii. iii. 58 Mirth, and Free-mindednesse, Simplicitie,..These be the lovely play-mates of pure veritie. 1653Gataker Vind. Annot. Jer. 66 Historical verity, saith he, shews the sepulkers of their false Gods here on earth. 1698G. Thomas Pensilvania 30, I..have all along, and shall still declare nothing but Verity. 1816Scott Old Mort. xxxiii, He is a prelatist.., and all, and more than all, that has been said of him must needs be verity. 1851Carlyle Sterling ii. vi. (1872) 137 A little verdant flowery island of poetic intellect, of melodious human verity. 1874H. R. Reynolds John Bapt. v. §2. 325 The hypothesis of Catholic verity does not attempt to solve the problem.
Comb.1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) I. 191 A motive of any description may be termed a veracity or verity-promoting, or mendacity-restraining, motive.
b. In various prepositional phrases and constructions used adverbially, freq. with emphatic force, as in († of) verity.
14..Sir Beues (S.) 4313 + 127 Foure þousand men, pur varyte, þey brouȝten with hem to Lundone cyte. 1533Gau Richt Vay 39 Hir cleyne virginite wes [w]vnderlie and in verite prouine be the prophetis. a1557Diurn. Occurr. (Bann. Cl.) 14 The quhilk Johne Scott fastit without meit or drink of veritie xxxij dayes. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lvii. §5 For we take not baptism nor the eucharist for bare resemblances.., but (as they are indeed and in verity) for means effectual. 1849James Woodman xxxiv, It is somewhat sudden in verity and truth; but he must depart for Dorset by daybreak to-morrow. 1875Ruskin Fors Clav. lvi. 231 In verity it was not I who fed my nurse, but my nurse me.
†c. of verity (used predicatively): True. Sc. Obs. (Cf. 3 b.)
1549Compl. Scot. v. 35 Bot admittand..that Socrates opinione var of verite, ȝit [etc.]. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 134 The provist ansuerit and said, ‘that is of truth and weratie, and gif’ [etc.]. c1593in Spalding Club Misc. I. 5 Gif this be of ueritie I remit me to the Erlle of Angus declaratioun. 1658in Hawick Archæol. Soc. Trans. (1868) 30/2 The which the said David Baddie hes maid faith before the baillies that it was of verritie.
2. With article or pronoun. The truth; the true or real facts or circumstances.
Freq. in the 16th c. in reference to religious belief, sometimes taking the sense of ‘the true religion or faith’.
1422Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. 161, I sey that ham lackyth men that sholde say to ham the Verite, or the trouthe. c1450Merlin xxi. 372 Telle me what ye be, and of youre felowes telle me the verite. c1480Henryson Fables, Sheep & Dog x, Seikand full mony Decreitis of the Law, And Glosis als, the veritie to knaw. 1535Coverdale 1 John iii. 19 Hereby knowe we, that we are of the verite. 1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 46 King: my faith I plight heere, to relate thee veritye soothlye. 1607J. Carpenter Plaine Mans Plough 22 Therefore Lactantius approacheth neerer to the veritie. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 73 The Apostles preached here the Christian veritie. 1696in Aubrey's Misc. (1721) 212, I have set it down fully,..being curious for nothing but the Verity. 1754in Nairne Peerage Evidence (1874) 55 [To] grant commission for taking his oath on the verity.
b. Const. of (something).
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xi. (Percy) 39 The comon wyt..Maye well ajudge the perfyt veritie Of theyr sentence. 1535in Lett. Suppress. Monasteries (Camden) 80 Howbeit no farder than the verity of Scripture will justifie my cause. 1604T. Wright Passions i. x. 43 By which auncient Proverbes may be collected the verity of the assertion set downe. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xl. 250 The verity of his Miracles. 1679Penn Addr. Prot. ii. iii. (1692) 79 We cannot..allow That a meer Belief of the Verity and Authority of the History and Doctrine of Scripture is..Faith. 1727Swift Further Acc. E. Curll Wks. 1755 III. i. 154 The verity of this hypothesis is justified by the symptoms. 1788Franklin Autobiog. Wks. 1840 I. 210 He wrote a volume denying the verity of my experiments. 1830Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 238 The most powerful proof of the verity of the rule. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. x. 66, I felt in all its force the brave verity of the remark of Mirabeau. 1888Sat. Rev. 21 Jan. 83 It is a pity Mr. Ashton should not have clearly distinguished..between the veracity of the author and the verity of his book.
c. Said of God or of Christ. Usu. with defining adj. preceding.
1535Joye Apol. Tindale (Arb.) 6 The verite hath sayd it and wryten it. 1559Homilies i. Of Faith ii. G iij b, Chryst hymself: the eternal and infallible veritie. 1563Ibid., Of the Resurrection G ggg ij b, O man, cal to thy minde, that therefore hast thou receyued into thyne owne possession the euerlasting veritie, our Sauiour Jesus Christ. 1645Vane Lost Sheepe 41 God being the Prime Verity. 1870J. H. Newman Gram. Assent i. v. 126 We have no experiences in our memory which we can..transmute into an Image of the Ineffable Verity.
†d. The exact wording and meaning of the original Hebrew or Greek text of the Bible. Obs.
1535Joye Apol. Tindale (Arb.) 45 But yet let Tindale loke ouer his Testament once agene and conferre yt a lytle beter withe the verite and greke to [= too]. 1539Bible (Great) title, The Byble in Englyshe, truly translated after the veryte of the Hebrue and Greke textes. 1627W. Bedell in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 136 For the translation sake (being not in the Vulgar, but according to the Hebrew verity). 1659Bp. Walton Consid. Considered 91 The greatest assertors of the Hebrew verity. 1771Luckombe Hist. Print. Pref. B 2 b, When they quote the Scripture wrong.., the authority of the Greek and Hebrew verity should be cast in their teeth.
e. The actuality or reality of something.
a1633Austin Medit. (1635) 176 He [Christ] offered also his Hands, to the other Disciples,..to proove..the veritie of his humane Body. 1686W. Hopkins Ratramnus' Body & Bl. Dissert. v. (1688) 75 Concerning the Verity of Christ's Body and Blood in the Eucharist. 1913Act 3 & 4 Geo. V, c. 20 §21 Such oath..shall be taken by him to the verity of the debt.
3. With a and pl. A true statement, doctrine, or opinion; an established fact, a reality; a truth.
1533Frith Answ. More (1548) 42 There are many verities, which yet may be no such artycles of our faithe. 1577Harrison England ii. vii. in Holinshed I. 80/2 Sith coniecturs are no verities & mine opinion is but one mans iudgement. 1605Camden Rem. (1623) 221 Magicke, in the time of Nero, was discouered to be but a vanity, in the declining state of the Roman Empire, accounted by the Gentiles a verity. 1649Bulwer Pathomyot. ii. i. 60 A great Anatomist, whom I find running away with an errour instead of a conceited verity. 1690Locke Hum. Und. iv. vii. §11 Which [propositions] being settled in the minds of their scholars, as unquestionable verities. 1765Sterne Tr. Shandy vii. xxxiv, But it is an indubitable verity, continued I, addressing myself to the commissary. 1845Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 122 Thus dreams are verities. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1877) I. App. 643 The quarrel and the reconciliation are unquestionable verities. 1878Tait & Stewart Unseen Univ. vii. §203. 202 Our strength lies in keeping up a communication with those verities which we all acknowledge.
b. of a verity (chiefly in parenthetic use): Truly, assuredly, in truth, indeed. (Cf. 1 b.) rhet.
1850W. Irving Mahomet vi. (1853) 33 Oh Mahomet, of a verity, thou are the prophet of God! 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. i. 15 The liver of a walrus eaten with little slices of his fat;..of a verity it is a delicious morsel. 1860Sala Baddington Peerage I. xv. 271 Down she came, in about ten minutes, looking of a verity, radiant.
4. Truthfulness, veracity, sincerity. ? Obs.
c1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (1878) 51 Justice, verity, holiness, fear of God. 1565T. Stapleton Fortr. Faith 14 b, Thou hast sworen to Dauid in thy verite. 1605Shakes. Macb. iv. iii. 92 The King-becoming Graces, As Iustice, Verity, Temp'rance, Stablenesse. 1606L. Bryskett Civ. Life 242 Veritie is the vertue..by which a man in all his conuersation, in all his actions, and in al his words sheweth himselfe sincere and ful of truth. 1808E. S. Barrett Miss-led General 47 If my verity is called in question, I will state in what manner, and by what means it was paid. 1848Scottish Jrnl. Topog., etc. II. 167/1 Scoto-Gallicisms... On my veritie, [from French] vérité. My certie, [from French] certes. |