单词 | verity |
释义 | verity From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishverityver‧i‧ty /ˈverəti/ noun (plural verities) [countable usually plural] formalan important principle or fact that is always true SYN trutheternal verities of life the Examples from the Corpusverity• one of the eternal verities of life• Yet, surely, the eternal verities of any game still apply.• A politician invited to make the wedding speech can be relied upon to dish up some predictions along with the eternal verities.• He genuinely tries to bring fairness, goodness and other verities to an endeavor that in many ways militates against such objectives.eternal verities• Thus the distinctions are not eternal verities, or supra-historical categories, but actual elements of a kind of social organization.• It adequately expressed the eternal verities of social work.• Yet, surely, the eternal verities of any game still apply.• Slowly Michael Ramsey began to realize that the eternal verities were more important to him than the political excitements.• A politician invited to make the wedding speech can be relied upon to dish up some predictions along with the eternal verities.Origin verity (1300-1400) Old French verite, from Latin veritas, from verus; → VERY2 |
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