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UK
/vˈɛɹɪti/
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[ US /ˈvɛɹəti, ˈvɛɹɪti/ ]
[ US /ˈvɛɹəti, ˈvɛɹɪti/ ]
NOUN
- an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth
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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
How To Use verity In A Sentence
- Wherefore the word X+S+D+, following may be taken adverbially, as a lenitive of that severity which this word importeth: "Let him smite me;" but The Sermons of John Owen
- The severity, universality, complexity of peasant burden overweight, is to determined fundamentally that solving peasant burden overweight needs long period of time and arduousness of problem.
- Verity, in her high heels and straight skirt, tripped over the blocks Ben had thrown out of his playpen.
- We analyzed more than 3000 infrared thermograms acquired from 1256 admitted patients and developed a thermo-visual diagnostic method for estimating the severity of intracranial hypertension.
- The severity of the decree seemed deadly to Tess.
- A prison sentence should match the severity of the crime.
- 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 is his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more. Hamlet
- The Dative of Reference denotes the person _to whom a statement refers, of whom it is true_, or _to whom it is of interest; _ as, -- mihi ante oculōs versāris, _you hover before my eyes_ (lit. _hover before the eyes to me_); illī sevēritās amōrem nōn dēminuit, _in his case severity did not diminish love_ (lit. _to him severity did not diminish_); interclūdere inimīcīs commeātum, _to cut of the supplies of the enemy. New Latin Grammar
- In a world where all nonrelativistic truth has been abolished, the relativity principle itself is proclaimed as a universal verity.
- There is unlikely to be to be a clinically significant difference in the severity of skull fracture.