verity
/ˈvɛɹɪti/
verity noun: truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth; veracity.
Noun
verity (countable and uncountable, plural verities)
- 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... - For the assured truth of things is derived from the principles of knowledg, and causes which determine their verities.1650, Thomas Browne, chapter I, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 3
- [...] but in the verity of extolment
- 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
- 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.2025 September 13, Simon Kuper, “How Maga rewrote the Little Red Book”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18
Proper noun capitalized: Verity
Verity
- A female given name from English derived from the Latin for truth; one of the Puritan virtue names.
verity meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Urdu
verity in Hindi
- verity
- सच्चाई saccāī
verity in Tamil
- பொருள்
verity in Urdu
- حقیقت, سچا بیان, سچائی, سچی بات, صدق
Examples of verity in a sentence
- A verity less than eternal had little appeal.1972, Don DeLillo, End Zone, page 54:
- As we shall see, all of these statements are of limited verity.2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography...
Forms of verity
| plural | verities |
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Origin of verity
From Middle English verite, from Anglo-Norman verité or Middle French verité, from Old French verité, from Latin vēritās, from the adjective vērus (“true”). Doublet of veritas.
Words formed from verity
Questions about verity
- What does verity mean?
- Verity means truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth; veracity.
- What is verity in Hindi?
- Verity in Hindi is सच्चाई (saccāī). See Verity meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use verity in a sentence?
- A verity less than eternal had little appeal.
- What part of speech is verity?
- Verity can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce verity?
- Verity is pronounced /ˈvɛɹɪti/.
- What is the plural of verity?
- The plural of verity is verities.
Words near verity in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: verity (page history and authors); Verity (page history and authors); सच्चाई (Hindi) (page history and authors); verity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); verity (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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