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1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne v. lxvi. 88 Ere truth-reuealing time..Bewraid her act [It. pria che di sue frodi altri s'auueda].

1653 S. Fisher Παιδοβαπτιζοντες Παιδιζοντες: Baby-baptism 234 That Truth-destroying thing called Tythes.

1736 J. Thomson Prospect: 5th Pt. Liberty 33 Instead of..Truth-perplexing metaphysic Wits, Men, Patriots, Chiefs and Citizens are form'd.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. i. 224 The Truth-finder, and the Gold-finder. View more context for this quotation

1759 tr. Horace Satires i. iv, in W. Duncombe et al. tr. Horace Wks. II. 101 Nor even him he spares, The Heart when Truth-revealing Bacchus bares [L. condita cum verax aperit praecordia Liber].

1778 J. Matlock Apostasy Broad Way to Hell 72 A brood of God-provoking, heaven-daring, truth-denying sinners.

1814 A. Clarke Holy Bible with Comm. & Crit. Notes (Acts xvi. 16) sig. 4R/1 Our term soothsaying comes from the Anglo-Saxon soð, truth; and sæȝan, to say: i. e. truth-saying, or saying the truth.

1868 R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies 1st Ser. xxiii. 130 An unlying man seldom telleth lies, and a truth-saying (veracious) man often saith the truth.

1903 Dawn (Baltimore) Oct. 74/1 His truth-denying, fallacious theory.

1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xxvi. 443 Truth-Searchers become just as silly..as the boozers.

1961 Boxoffice 12 June a10/2 Aided by a little truth-bending, they evade school officials.

1975 Publisher's Weekly 18 Aug. 58/3 He abandoned near-total admiration for some tough truth-saying about Ali toward the end.

1999 New Yorker 7 June 20/3 We all have our own idea of what makes road trips truth revealing—and irresistible.

2009 W. Chaloupka in E. Bomberg & D. Schlosberg Environmentalism in U.S. iv. 58 A telling critique of Plato's cave allegory, with the philosopher cast as the truth-bringing scientist.