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单词 verity
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Definition of verity in English:

verity

nounPlural verities ˈvɛrɪtiˈvɛrədi
  • 1A true principle or belief, especially one of fundamental importance.

    (极其重要的)真原则,真信仰

    the eternal verities

    基本的道德准则。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • To those of us who have not forgotten the eternal verities, he has summed up perfectly today's pundit herd of Washington and Wall Street.
    • The others challenged the eternal verities of the West, and the critics hated them.
    • Do these remnants pledged to eternal verities have any prospect of succeeding with contemporary children?
    • Cynics will charge that these are the eternal verities of political classes everywhere.
    • In a world where all nonrelativistic truth has been abolished, the relativity principle itself is proclaimed as a universal verity.
    • We must remind ourselves of what Faulkner called ‘the old verities and truths of the heart’.
    • You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper.
    • To quote the eternal verities of the Muppet Show: ‘It is at times like these that I am proud to be an American Bald Eagle.’
    • This year, the principle will be treated as an eternal verity.
    • One often hears the comment that each new generation rediscovers the eternal verities.
    • Teshigawara inhabits a world of eternal verities.
    • The author looks at the different issues and technologies affecting time, and concludes it is the most important of the verities.
    • She's no nostalgia merchant for the musical Luddites, and it's not just the eternal verities of soul music that Jones traffics in.
    • No, we need something that will * really * get the Church in touch with the eternal verities for which contemporary American culture stands!
    • The theme of her remarks as she opened the new synod concerned the challenges of staying true to unchanging verities in a world of constant change and new challenges.
    Synonyms
    the truth, the whole truth, the naked truth, gospel truth, god's truth, the honest truth
    1. 1.1mass noun Truth.
      事实;真理
      irrefutable, objective verity

      无可辩驳的客观真理。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Their over-educated leader, Mr Mugabe, illustrates perfectly the verity of an ancient proverb: much learning does not teach sense.
      • I imagine Winthrop and myself in these respective roles and almost choke on my drink at the ludicrousness but strange verity of the thought.
      • They argued that discussion led to verity and gave enlightened public opinion the force of law.
      • The deal is, he writes better stuff, but I'm more prolific, thus illustrating the eternal economic verity: Quality.
      • And once that kind of liberal verity of free speech seems to be under threat, then the commentators come out and criticism rains down.
      • Yet with The Quiet American, Noyce aims at verity, not controversy; he seeks admission, not outrage.
      • The timeliness and verity of this admonition is not arguable.
      • Are you sometimes concerned about the verity of what you read on the internet?
      • I'm not sure I agree with my health warning, below, but who am I to doubt the verity of an internet quiz?
      • David, the meticulous neoclassicist, insisted upon the verity of his work.
      • The unspoken underlying verity was that there were no residents of Abu Hishma who would voluntarily turn them over.
      • In fact, a case can be made that the Internet in general represent the new Truth Police in an era of increasingly elusive verity.
      Synonyms
      veracity, truthfulness, sincerity, candour, honesty, genuineness
      fact, certainty, certitude

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French verite, from Latin veritas, from verus 'true'.

Rhymes

ambidexterity, asperity, austerity, celerity, dexterity, ferrety, posterity, prosperity, severity, sincerity, temerity

Definition of verity in US English:

verity

nounˈvɛrədiˈverədē
  • 1A true principle or belief, especially one of fundamental importance.

    (极其重要的)真原则,真信仰

    the eternal verities

    基本的道德准则。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • One often hears the comment that each new generation rediscovers the eternal verities.
    • To those of us who have not forgotten the eternal verities, he has summed up perfectly today's pundit herd of Washington and Wall Street.
    • In a world where all nonrelativistic truth has been abolished, the relativity principle itself is proclaimed as a universal verity.
    • No, we need something that will * really * get the Church in touch with the eternal verities for which contemporary American culture stands!
    • To quote the eternal verities of the Muppet Show: ‘It is at times like these that I am proud to be an American Bald Eagle.’
    • We must remind ourselves of what Faulkner called ‘the old verities and truths of the heart’.
    • Teshigawara inhabits a world of eternal verities.
    • The author looks at the different issues and technologies affecting time, and concludes it is the most important of the verities.
    • This year, the principle will be treated as an eternal verity.
    • Do these remnants pledged to eternal verities have any prospect of succeeding with contemporary children?
    • The theme of her remarks as she opened the new synod concerned the challenges of staying true to unchanging verities in a world of constant change and new challenges.
    • The others challenged the eternal verities of the West, and the critics hated them.
    • You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper.
    • Cynics will charge that these are the eternal verities of political classes everywhere.
    • She's no nostalgia merchant for the musical Luddites, and it's not just the eternal verities of soul music that Jones traffics in.
    Synonyms
    the truth, the whole truth, the naked truth, gospel truth, god's truth, the honest truth
    1. 1.1 Truth.
      事实;真理
      irrefutable, objective verity

      无可辩驳的客观真理。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The timeliness and verity of this admonition is not arguable.
      • They argued that discussion led to verity and gave enlightened public opinion the force of law.
      • Are you sometimes concerned about the verity of what you read on the internet?
      • Yet with The Quiet American, Noyce aims at verity, not controversy; he seeks admission, not outrage.
      • In fact, a case can be made that the Internet in general represent the new Truth Police in an era of increasingly elusive verity.
      • And once that kind of liberal verity of free speech seems to be under threat, then the commentators come out and criticism rains down.
      • The deal is, he writes better stuff, but I'm more prolific, thus illustrating the eternal economic verity: Quality.
      • David, the meticulous neoclassicist, insisted upon the verity of his work.
      • The unspoken underlying verity was that there were no residents of Abu Hishma who would voluntarily turn them over.
      • I'm not sure I agree with my health warning, below, but who am I to doubt the verity of an internet quiz?
      • Their over-educated leader, Mr Mugabe, illustrates perfectly the verity of an ancient proverb: much learning does not teach sense.
      • I imagine Winthrop and myself in these respective roles and almost choke on my drink at the ludicrousness but strange verity of the thought.
      Synonyms
      veracity, truthfulness, sincerity, candour, honesty, genuineness
      fact, certainty, certitude

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French verite, from Latin veritas, from verus ‘true’.

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