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UK
/tɹˈuːθ/
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[ US /ˈtɹuθ/ ]
[ US /ˈtɹuθ/ ]
NOUN
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a fact that has been verified
at last he knew the truth
the truth is that he didn't want to do it -
conformity to reality or actuality
he was famous for the truth of his portraits
they debated the truth of the proposition
the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat
he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities -
a true statement
he told the truth
he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it -
the quality of being near to the true value
the lawyer questioned the truth of my account
he was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass
How To Use truth In A Sentence
- You may be trying to invoke the ‘echos from the supernal world’ but they're everywhere and where-ever people say they're doing magic there's a bit of truth there.
- The dress wasn't low cut, but in truth she didn't have a lot of cleavage to reveal, her figure being quite elfin.
- Only the bishops have retained the augurial staff, called the crosier; which was the distinctive mark of the dignity of augur; so that the symbol of falsehood has become the symbol of truth. A Philosophical Dictionary
- The unpleasant truth is that hiding behind private ownership only hides the fall in value from people who choose not to look.
- Truth needs no colour; beauty, no pencil.
- For observe: this love of what is called ideality or beauty in preference to truth, operates not only in making us choose the past rather than the present for our subjects, but it makes us falsify the present when we do take it for our subject. Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853
- Finally, in the formation of an opinion as to the abstract preferableness of one course of action over another, or as to the truth or falsehood or right significance of a proposition, the fact that the majority of one's contemporaries lean in the other direction is naught, and no more than dust in the balance. On Compromise
- Thereafter thought, weighing the truth or falseness of the notion, determines what is true: and this explains the Greek word for thought, dianoia, which is derived from dianoein, meaning to think and discriminate. NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
- New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. Kurt Vonnegut
- For Rosenstock-Huessy, the vocative is the condition of dialogue and hence the real condition of a new truth. Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
