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In truth
(gcide) | Truth \Truth\, n.; pl. Truths. [OE. treuthe, trouthe, treowpe,
AS. tre['o]w?. See True; cf. Troth, Betroth.]
1. The quality or being true; as:
(a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with
that which is, or has been; or shall be.
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(b) Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence
with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the
like.
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Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of
the ironwork. --Mortimer.
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(c) Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth,
But whispering tongues can poison truth.
--Coleridge.
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(d) The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from
falsehood; veracity.
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If this will not suffice, it must appear
That malice bears down truth. --Shak.
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2. That which is true or certain concerning any matter or
subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of
things; fact; verity; reality.
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Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor.
--Zech. viii.
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I long to know the truth here of at large. --Shak.
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The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a
legitimate deduction from all the facts which are
truly material. --Coleridge.
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3. A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or
proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the
like; as, the great truths of morals.
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Even so our boasting . . . is found a truth. --2
Cor. vii. 14.
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4. Righteousness; true religion.
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Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. --John i. 17.
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Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.
--John xvii.
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In truth, in reality; in fact.
Of a truth, in reality; certainly.
To do truth, to practice what God commands.
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He that doeth truth cometh to the light. --John iii.
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in truth
(wn) | in truth
adv 1: in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers); "in
truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman
Empire"; "really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly
awful book" [syn: in truth, really, truly] |
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in truth
(encz) | in truth, adv: |
in truth
(wn) | in truth
adv 1: in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers); "in
truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman
Empire"; "really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly
awful book" [syn: in truth, really, truly] |
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