verity
/ˈvɛɹɪti/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.82 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth; veracity.
Countable; Uncountable
name
A female given name from English derived from the Latin for truth; one of the Puritan virtue names.
Example Sentences
- "[...] but in the verity of extolment I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more."
- "For the assured truth of things is derived from the principles of knowledg, and causes which determine their verities."
- "I was moving into the biblical phase of the afternoon, the peak of my new simplicity. A verity less than eternal had little appeal."
- "If civilized life had covered over the ancient verities, Dumuzi learns in his tragic death that the sheepfold is still there to reclaim him."
- "As we shall see, all of these statements are of limited verity."
- "Absolutist verities were not only being challenged in more systematic and more daring forms than hitherto; the parameters of political debate were also being widened by both government and its critics."
Etymology
From Middle English verite, from Anglo-Norman verité or Middle French verité, from Old French verité, from Latin vēritās, from the adjective vērus (“true”). Doublet of veritas.