veraciousadj.
/vᵻˈreɪʃəs/, U.S. /vəˈreɪʃəs/ 1. Habitually speaking or disposed to speak the truth; observant of the truth; truthful.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > truthfulness, veracity > [adjective]
soothfastc825
soothsaȝelc900
trueOE
unlighela1200
sootha1250
un-i-lowec1380
textualc1386
veritable1489
truthful1568
troth telling1579
veridical1653
verificala1660
of veracity1671
veriloquous1672
veraciousa1677
unfabling1797
veridicous1817
falsehood-free1850
trothful1861
veridic1895
a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1683) II. 63 That God is good, veracious and faithfull.
1781 S. Johnson Swift in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VIII. 45 The credit of the writers, both undoubtedly veracious.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Mercury lxii, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 315 I am a most veracious person, and Totally unacquainted with untruth.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxviii. 272 The testimony of two veracious and competent witnesses.
1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic xiii. 431 A witness is presumed to be veracious in this case, in proportion as his love of truth is already established from others.
2. Characterized by veracity, truthfulness, or honesty; conforming to truth; true, accurate.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > truthfulness, veracity > [adjective] > of statement: agreeing with reality
soothlyc888
soothfastc950
truea1250
very1303
strait1340
honesta1400
soothfulc1400
precisec1443
veritable1474
just1490
perfect1523
faithful1529
sincere1555
unmangled1557
truthful?1567
neat1571
oraculous1612
punctual1620
oracular1631
unvamped1639
strict1645
unembroidered1649
ungarbled1721
unexaggerated1770
veracious1777
unfictitious1835
unexaggeratinga1854
uncooked1860
1777 S. Johnson Let. 27 Oct. (1992) III. 90 Is not my soul laid open in these veracious pages?
1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. V. x. viii. 718 The testimony which has served as the instrument of the mischief, has been..veracious.
1868 W. R. Greg Lit. & Social Judgm. 400 He..showed His back but not His face to Moses; and dictated the veracious narrative of Balaam and his ass.
a1871 A. De Morgan Budget of Paradoxes (1872) 250 That it was the most veracious of books written by the most honest of men.
3. That estimates or judges truly or correctly.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > [adjective] > showing sound judgement
stablec1290
ripec1405
judging1546
sound1577
judiciala1586
judicious1598
judgmatical1709
well-judged1717
judgmatic1787
veracious1851
1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling i. v. 50 The young ardent soul that enters on this world..with veracious insight,..will find this world a very mad one.
Derivatives
veˈraciously adv.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > truthfulness, veracity > [adverb]
without(en, but leasec888
soothfastlya890
soothfasta1300
aefauldly1472
truthly1490
gospelly1596
sincerely1597
honest1654
sacredly1706
rightly1786
veraciously1807
truthfully1828
veridically1832
unfallaciously1852
honest-like1899
salva veritate1930
1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. vii. 405 In Shakspeare, it was fiction, to lay the murder of Duncan, at a place different from Bothgowanan, where the Chronicle has veraciously fixed it.
1905 Athenæum 25 Nov. 719/1 How diplomatists plot..is veraciously related.
veˈraciousness n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > truthfulness, veracity > [noun]
soothfastnessc825
trutha1450
fidelity1534
verity1565
veracity1623
truthfulness1647
veritableness1664
veridicalness1727
tell-truth1744
truthiness1832
veraciousness1860
veridicalitya1901
veridicity1937
1860 I. Taylor Spirit Hebr. Poetry (1873) 63 The veraciousness of the record.
1879 J. Morley Burke v. 97 Burke's habitual veraciousness.
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