truth
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[edit] Etymology
From Old English trīewþ, trēowþ, corresponding to true + -th.
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truth (plural truths)
- (archaic) The state or quality of being true to someone or something; faithfulness, fidelity.
- Truth to one's own feelings is all-important in life.
- (obsolete) A pledge of loyalty or faith.
- Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
- There was some truth in his statement that he had no other choice.
- True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
- The truth is that our leaders knew a lot more than they were letting on.
- 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.
- 1820: Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. — John Keats, ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’
- Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
- Hunger and jealousy are just eternal truths of human existence.
- 1813: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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state or quality of being true to someone or something
pledge of loyalty or faith
conformity to fact or reality
true facts
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that which is real
something acknowledged to be true
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