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Usage examples that are food for thought

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Words to describe US presidential candidates

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PRONUNCIATION:

(VER-i-tee)

MEANING:

noun:
1. The quality of being true.
2. Something that is true: a universally accepted truth.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin veritas (truth), from verus (true). Earliest documented use: 1422.

USAGE:

“Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up all the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.”
Horace Mann; Speech in the US House of Representatives; Feb 23, 1849.

See more usage examples of verity in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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