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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VER'ITY, n. [L. veritas, from verus, true.]
1. Truth; consonance of a statement, proposition or other thing to fact. 1 Timothy 2.
It is a proposition of eternal verity, that none can govern while he is despised.
2. A true assertion or tenet.
By this it seems to be a verity.
3. Moral truth; agreement of the words with the thoughts.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: conformity to reality or actuality; "they debated the truth of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous for the truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities" [syn: truth, the true, verity, trueness] [ant: falseness, falsity]
2: an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Etymology: Middle English verite, from Anglo-French verité, from Latin veritat-, veritas, from verus true Date: 14th century 1. the quality or state of being true or real 2. something (as a statement) that is true; especially a fundamental and inevitably true value <such eternal verities as honor, love, and patriotism> 3. the quality or state of being truthful or honest <the king-becoming graces, as justice, verity — Shakespeare>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 a true statement, esp. one of fundamental import. 2 truth. 3 a really existent thing. Etymology: ME f. OF verité, verté f. L veritas -tatis f. verus true

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Verity Ver"i*ty, n.; pl. Verities. [F. v['e]rit['e], L. veritas, fr. verus true. See Very.] 1. The quality or state of being true, or real; consonance of a statement, proposition, or other thing, with fact; truth; reality. ``The verity of certain words.'' --Shak. It is a proposition of eternal verity, that none can govern while he is despised. --South. 2. That which is true; a true assertion or tenet; a truth; a reality. Mark what I say, which you shall find By every syllable a faithful verity. --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(verities) The verities of something are all the things that are believed to be true about it. (FORMAL) ...some verities of human nature. N-COUNT: usu pl, usu with supp

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Truth, truthfulness, true or real nature, reality, consonance to the reality of things. 2. True statement, true assertion, fact, true tenet.

Moby Thesaurus

absolute credibility, actuality, credibility, eternal verities, fact, good sooth, gospel, historical truth, historicity, reality, sooth, the true, trueness, truism, truth, truth-loving, truth-speaking, truth-telling, truthfulness, ultimate truth, unerroneousness, unfallaciousness, unfalseness, veraciousness, veracity, veridicality, very truth