verities

Noun

verity (countable and uncountable, plural verities)

1. (uncommon) 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.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
2. 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.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, pages 290–1

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