verity
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1. verity - Noun
2. Verity - Proper noun
Meaning
The quality or state of being true, or real; consonance of a statement, proposition, or other thing, with fact; truth; reality.
That which is true; a true assertion or tenet; a truth; a reality.
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An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.
The moment this brilliant young producer Miss Verity Lambert started telling me about Doctor Who, I was hooked. I remember telling her, "This is going to run for five years."
Man is blinded in this life and therefore we may not see our Father, God, as He is. And what time that He of His goodness willeth to shew Himself to man, He sheweth Himself homely, as man. Notwithstanding, I reason, in verity we ought to know and believe that the Father is not man.
Religious feeling is as much a verity as any other part of human consciousness; and against it, on the subjective side, the waves of science beat in vain.
It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation.