truth
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English trouthe, truthe, trewthe, treowthe, from Old English trēowþ, trīewþ ("truth, veracity, faith, fidelity, loyalty, honour, pledge, covenant"), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō, from Proto-Indo-European *drū-, from Proto-Indo-European *deru-, equivalent to true + -th.
Pronunciation Nountruth (uncountable)
- True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
- The truth is that our leaders knew a lot more than they were letting on.
- 1831 December 27, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Beauty—Genius”, in H[enry] N[elson] C[oleridge], editor, Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge. […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], published 1835, →OCLC ↗, page 19 ↗:
- The truth depends on, and is only arrived at, by a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material.
- Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
- There was some truth in his statement that he had no other choice.
- The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
- Truth to one's own feelings is all-important in life.
- (archaic) Faithfulness, fidelity.
- (obsolete) A pledge of loyalty or faith.
- Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
- 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC ↗:
- Ploughs, […] to make them go true, […] depends much upon the truth of the ironwork.
- 1840, Joseph Whitworth, A Paper on Plane Metallic Surfaces or True Planes:
- The process of grinding is, in fact, regarded as indispensable wherever truth is required, yet that of scraping is calculated to produce a higher degree of truth than has ever been attained by grinding.
- That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
- The truth is what is.
- Alcoholism and redemption led me finally to truth.
- 1819 May, John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC ↗, stanza 5, page 116 ↗:
- "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
- (countable) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
- Hunger and jealousy are just eternal truths of human existence.
- 1813 January 26, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC ↗:
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
- (physics, dated) Topness; the property of a truth quark.
- (games) In the game truth or dare, the choice to truthfully answer a question put forth.
- When asked truth or dare, he picked truth.
- See Thesaurus:truth
- French: vérité
- German: Wahrheit, Treue
- Italian: veritate, verità
- Portuguese: verdade
- Russian: ве́рность
- Spanish: verdad
- Portuguese: juramento
- French: vérité
- German: Wahrheit
- Italian: verità
- Portuguese: verdade, verdades, realidade
- Spanish: verdad
truth (truths, present participle truthing; simple past and past participle truthed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully.
- c. 1636 John Ford (dramatist), The Fancies Chaste and Noble
- Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.
- c. 1636 John Ford (dramatist), The Fancies Chaste and Noble
- To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.
- (nonstandard, intransitive) To tell the truth.
- 1966, Nancy Sinatra, These Boots Are Made for Walkin':
- You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'
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