Word Meanings - TRUTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The quality or being true; as: -- Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be. Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like. Plows,

Additional info about word: TRUTH

1. The quality or being true; as: -- Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be. 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. Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness. Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth. Coleridge. 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. 2. 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. 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. Even so our boasting . . . is found a truth. 2 Cor. vii. 14. 4. 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. In truth, in reality; in fact. -- Of a truth, in reality; certainly. -- To do truth, to practice what God commands. He that doeth truth cometh to the light. John iii. 21.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TRUTH)

• Fact
• Truth
• deed
• occurrence
• certainty
• circumstance
• event
• reality
• Indeed
• Truly
• verily
• certainly
• really
• in truth
• in fact
• Nature
• Essence
• creation
• constitution
• structure
• disposition
• truth
• regularity
• kind
• sort
• character
• species
• affection
• naturalness
• Principle
• Source
• origin
• motive
• cause
• energy
• substance
• element
• power
• faculty
• tenet
• law
• doctrine
• axiom
• maxim
• postulate
• rule
• Reality
• Verity
• existence
• genuineness
• substantiality

Related words: (words related to TRUTH)

• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• INDECOROUSNESS
  The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum.
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• INDEVOTE
  Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• INDECENCY
  1. The quality or state of being indecent; want of decency, modesty, or good manners; obscenity. 2. That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an offense against delicacy. They who, by speech or writing, present to the ear or the
• INDEXICAL
  Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index.
• INDEFICIENCY
  The state or quality of not being deficient. Strype.
• CREATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to creation.
• VERILY
  In very truth; beyond doubt or question; in fact; certainly. Bacon. Trust in the Lord and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the verily thou shalt be fed. Ps. xxxvii. 3.
• INDEFATIGABLY
  Without weariness; without yielding to fatigue; persistently. Dryden.
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• INDEBT
  To bring into debt; to place under obligation; -- chiefly used in the participle indebted. Thy fortune hath indebted thee to none. Daniel.
• CREATION
  1. The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence. From the creation to the general doom. Shak. As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had
• EVENT
  1. That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad. "The events of his early years." Macaulay. To watch quietly the course of events. Jowett There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked. Eccl. ix.
• INDEFECTIBLE
  Not defectible; unfailing; not liable to defect, failure, or decay. An indefectible treasure in the heavens. Barrow. A state of indefectible virtue and happiness. S. Clarke.
• CREATIONISM
  The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to traducianism.
• INDEPENDENCY
  Doctrine and polity of the Independents. (more info) 1. Independence. "Give me," I cried , "My bread, and independency!" Pope.
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• EARTHLY-MINDED
  Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• EVENMINDED
  Having equanimity.
• CARNAL-MINDEDNESS
  Grossness of mind.