01 n. The quality or being true; as: -- (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.
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Truths ((#))
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The quality or being true; as: -- (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.
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2.
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.
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Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.“Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth.” — Coleridge.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.“He that doeth truth cometh to the light.” — John iii. 21.
Phrases & compounds
In truth —
in reality; in fact.
Of a truth —
in reality; certainly.
To do truth —
to practice what God commands.