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