Verity Definition

vĕrĭ-tē
verities
noun
verities
The quality or condition of being true, factual, or real.
American Heritage
Conformity to truth or fact; truth; reality.
Webster's New World
A principle, belief, etc. taken to be fundamentally and permanently true; a truth; a reality.
Webster's New World
pronoun

A female given name derived from the Latin for truth; one of the Puritan virtue names.

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Other Word Forms of Verity

Noun

Singular:
verity
Plural:
verities

Origin of Verity

  • Middle English verite truth from Old French from Latin vēritās from vērus true wērə-o- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Anglo-Norman verité, Middle French verité, from Latin vÄ“ritās, from the adjective vÄ“rus (“true").

    From Wiktionary

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