Truth , v. t. To assert as true; to declare. [R.]
Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.
Ford.
Truth (?), n.;
pl. Truths (#). [OE. treuthe,
trouthe, treowpe, AS. treów&?;. See True; cf. Troth, Betroth.]
1. The quality or being true; as: -- (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.
(b) Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like.
Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork.
Mortimer. (c) Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.
Alas! they had been friends in youth,
But whispering tongues can poison truth.
Coleridge.
(d) The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity.
If this will
not suffice, it must appear
That malice bears down truth.
Shak.
2. That which is true
or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality.
Speak ye every man the
truth to his neighbor.
Zech. viii. 16. I long to know
the truth here of at large.
Shak. The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the
facts which are truly material.
Coleridge. 3. A true thing; a
verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or
the like; as, the great
truths of morals.
Even so our boasting . . . is found a truth.
2 Cor.
vii. 14. 4. Righteousness; true religion.
Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
John i. 17. Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.
John
xvii. 17. In truth, in reality; in fact. -- Of a truth, in reality; certainly. -- To do truth, to practice what God commands.
He that doeth
truth cometh to the light.
John iii. 21.
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