verity

noun

1. (countable, uncommon, uncountable)Truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth; veracity.

   “[...] but in the verity of extolment I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.”

   “For the assured truth of things is derived from the principles of knowledg, and causes which determine their verities.”

   “I was moving into the biblical phase of the afternoon, the peak of my new simplicity. A verity less than eternal had little appeal.”

   “If civilized life had covered over the ancient verities, Dumuzi learns in his tragic death that the sheepfold is still there to reclaim him.”

   “As we shall see, all of these statements are of limited verity.”

2. (countable, uncountable)A true statement; an established doctrine.

   “Absolutist verities were not only being challenged in more systematic and more daring forms than hitherto; the parameters of political debate were also being widened by both government and its critics.”

   “Now populists recycle communist verities: the fetishisation of working-class culture, the vision of a good “people” fighting a bad elite, the belief that the state should control business and the dismissal of parliamentary democracy as a bourgeois sham.”

name

1. A female given name from English derived from the Latin for truth; one of the Puritan virtue names.