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veracity|vəˈræsɪtɪ|
Also 7 veracitie.
[ad. F. véracité (= It. veracità, Sp. veracidad, Pg. veracidade), or med.L. vērācitāt-, vērācitās, f. L. vērāci-, vērax, f. vēr-us real, true.]
1. The quality or character in persons of speaking or stating the truth; habitual observance of the truth; truthfulness, veraciousness.
1623in Cockeram i. 1624H. Mason New Art Lying v. 95 Truth morally taken, which hee calleth veracitie. 1678Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 154 A due conformity between the Words and the Understanding, when I speak as I think; which is moral Truth or Veracity. 1714R. Fiddes Pract. Disc. ii. 87 Veracity..is a moral virtue, and consists in a due conformity of our words, or declarations, with our thoughts. 1775Johnson Tax. no Tyr. 57 To send deputies to the Congress of Philadelphia, to that seat of Virtue and Veracity. 1809Coleridge Friend (1865) 23 Veracity, therefore, not mere accuracy; to convey truth, not merely to say it, is the point of duty in dispute. 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Illusions Wks. (Bohn) II. 447, I look upon the simple and childish virtues of veracity and honesty as the root of all that is sublime in character. 1900L. Huxley Life & Lett. T. H. Huxley II. 427 Huxley's passion for veracity was perhaps his strongest characteristic.
b. of veracity, trustworthy, veracious, truthful. (Also with qualifying adjectives.)
1671J. Webster Metallogr. i. 8 Authors..of the greatest authority and veracity. 1700J. A. Astry tr. Saavedra-Faxardo I. 88 Speaking of a Man of Veracity, we say he carries his Heart in his Hands. 1704in Pennsylv. Hist. Soc. Mem. IX. 331 Those in this place, of unblemished credit and undoubted veracity, who were witnesses. 1737Gentl. Mag. VII. 11 The same Author of veracity attests, that [etc.]. 1780Harris Philol. Enq. Wks. (1841) 494 Philosophers, men of veracity, studied the heavenly bodies. 1839James Louis XIV, III. 31 A few instances..from one author alone, of undoubted veracity.
c. This quality as manifested in individuals. Const. of (a person) or with possessive.
1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 114, I..doubt not of the veracity of that noble philosopher. 1687T. Brown Saints in Uproar Wks. 1730 I. 81 Authors of that undoubted credit, that no body..will call their veracity in question. 1726Swift Gulliver i. viii, Which, after great astonishment, clearly convinced him of my veracity. 1785Paley Mor. Philos. iii. i. xv, All the benefit of conversation, depends upon our opinion of the speaker's veracity. 1840Hood Up Rhine 2 But for the preparations..going on before my eyes, I should have..doubts of my own veracity. 1870J. H. Newman Gram. Assent i. ii. 14 The child assents..to the veracity of his mother in her assertion of the inapprehensible.
2. Agreement of statement or report with the actual fact or facts; accordance with truth; correctness, accuracy.
1736Butler Anal. ii. vii. 369 Mere genealogies..perhaps do carry some presumption of veracity. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 4 ⁋19 In narratives where historical veracity has no place. 1825Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1839) IV. 275 The character of veracity and simplicity on the very countenance, as it were, of the Gospel. 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Fate Wks. (Bohn) II. 316 No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts.
b. Const. of or with possessive.
1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 101 The veracity of the voice of Christ sounding in the Scriptures. 1684T. Goddard Plato's Demon 100 For Testimony concerning the Veracity of his History, we find even [etc.]. a1706Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. 386 Were the tradition of the Scriptures' antiquity and veracity not enough. 1755Lloyd in Connoisseur No. 73. 434 The veracity of these posthumous encomiums may, indeed, be fairly suspected. 1803Edwin I. vi. 89 The band of warriors no longer doubting the veracity of his words. 1843G. S. Faber Eight Dissert. (1845) I. 151 Such, at least, is the ancient narrative:..and..I see no reason to disbelieve its general veracity. 1902R. Hichens Londoners 42 Finding the veracity of his paragraph thus impugned.
3. Correspondence with external facts; exactness in the indication of these.
1666Bp. S. Parker Free & Impart. Censure (1667) 59 Suppose that we were born with these congenite Anticipations,..how can I be certaine of their Truth and Veracity? 1837Dickens Pickw. ii, He was under the painful necessity of admitting the veracity of his optics. 1869F. W. Newman Misc. 53 Every Specific Informant [i.e. scientific instrument] needs to have its veracity put to the test.
4. That which is true; a truthful statement; a truth.
1852F. W. Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. xvi. (1857) 204 It is possible for a man to utter veracities and yet to be false to himself and to his God. 1867Stubbs Study Med. & Mod. Hist. (1886) 18 A world whose falsehoods and veracities are separated by so very thin a barrier.
5. Comb., as veracity-assuring, veracity-serving.
1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) I. 194 According as..the force of..the veracity-insuring..motives is the strongest. Ibid. 282 Veracity-serving information, information considered as a source of truth. |