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trueness|ˈtruːnɪs|
Forms: see true a.
[OE. tré(o)wnes, f. tréowe, true + -ness.]
I.
†1. Trust, confidence; object of trust. Only OE.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xlii. (1899) 149 Drihten ælmihtiᵹa God,..þu eart min sceoppend, & min alesend,..min trewnes, & min tohopa.
†2. = truce n. 1. Obs. rare.
a1400Siege of Troy 1058 in Archiv neu. Spr. LXXII. 34 Þeo folk of Grece on heore side Beden Treowenes [v.r. truce] for to abyde.
II. The quality of being true; truth (in various senses).
3. Faithfulness, loyalty: = truth 1.
c1290Beket 487 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 120 Wel þov wost þat ech of us..Trewenesse we þe sworen ase riȝt was. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 738 Ac god þouȝte ȝut on hire vor hire triwenesse [v.rr. trewnesse, trewenesse, trunesse]. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. viii. 46 God shall..continue faithfull and his trewnesse shall be knowen. 1612Bacon Ess., Faction (Arb.) 83 The euen carriage betweene two factions, proceedeth not alwaies of moderation, but of a truenesse to a mans selfe, with end to make vse of both. 1909P. C. Simpson Life Rainy v. 111 A shrewd, hardheaded race..with..not only trueness but deep tenderness of heart.
4. Conformity with fact or reality; verity: = truth 5.
1587Golding De Mornay xxxiv. (1592) 550, I hope I haue now shewed the truenesse and substantialnesse of the Christian Religion, and the vanitie & wickedness of al other Religions. 1861H. Bonar God's Way of Peace viii. (1868) 91 The trueness of the Father's testimony.
5. Conformity to a standard; accuracy, exactitude: = truth 6.
1594Blundevil Exerc. v. (1636) 592 There were no way..to be compared vnto it, neither for the truenesse, easinesse, nor readinesse of working thereby. 1805J. Luccock Nat. Wool 176 A far more valuable quality..which the wool⁓grower should observe..called the trueness of the hair.
6. Genuineness; reality, actuality: = truth 7.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage ix. xv. (1614) 912 They make this..one of the Markes of the truenesse and Catholicisme of their Church. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. (1623) 198 That seeing the truenesse of the stampe, she might be the sooner molded to entertaine the motion. 1833Chalmers Const. Man (1835) I. ii. i. 151 The objective trueness of the things which are perceived. |