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verity
(mass) | verity
- pravda |
verity
(encz) | verity,pravda n: Zdeněk Brož |
Verity
(gcide) | Verity \Ver"i*ty\, n.; pl. Verities. [F. v['e]rit['e], L.
veritas, fr. verus true. See Very.]
1. The quality or state of being true, or real; consonance of
a statement, proposition, or other thing, with fact;
truth; reality. "The verity of certain words." --Shak.
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It is a proposition of eternal verity, that none can
govern while he is despised. --South.
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2. That which is true; a true assertion or tenet; a truth; a
reality.
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Mark what I say, which you shall find
By every syllable a faithful verity. --Shak.
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verity
(wn) | verity
n 1: conformity to reality or actuality; "they debated the truth
of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us the
blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous for the
truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion in his
search for eternal verities" [syn: truth, the true,
verity, trueness] [ant: falseness, falsity]
2: an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic
truth |
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severity
(mass) | severity
- nepríjemný, drsný, závažnosť, prísnosť |
verity
(mass) | verity
- pravda |
drought severity
(encz) | drought severity,závažnost sucha n: [meteo.] Grino |
severity
(encz) | severity,náročnost n: j_polach@email.czseverity,přísnost severity,závažnost n: [bio.] [meteo.] Grino |
verity
(encz) | verity,pravda n: Zdeněk Brož |
Severity
(gcide) | Severity \Se*ver"i*ty\, n.; pl. Severities. [L. severitas: cf.
F. s['e]v['e]rit['e].]
The quality or state of being severe. Specifically:
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(a) Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor;
harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof;
severity of discipline or government; severity of
penalties. "Strict age, and sour severity." --Milton.
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(b) The quality or power of distressing or paining; extreme
degree; extremity; intensity; inclemency; as, the
severity of pain or anguish; the severity of cold or
heat; the severity of the winter.
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(c) Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as,
severity practiced on prisoners of war.
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(d) Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of
a test.
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Confining myself to the severity of truth.
--Dryden.
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severity
(wn) | severity
n 1: used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or
weather [syn: badness, severity, severeness]
2: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
[syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour,
severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness]
3: extreme plainness [syn: austereness, severity,
severeness]
4: excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness
of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
[syn: severity, severeness, harshness, rigor,
rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency,
hardness, stiffness] |
verity
(wn) | verity
n 1: conformity to reality or actuality; "they debated the truth
of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us the
blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous for the
truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion in his
search for eternal verities" [syn: truth, the true,
verity, trueness] [ant: falseness, falsity]
2: an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic
truth |
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