Noun

(diversities)

The quality of being diverse or different; difference or unlikeness.

* c''1386 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), ''(w, The Man of Law's Tale) , 87:

Ther was swich diversitee Bitwene hir bothe lawes.

A variety; diverse types or examples.

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Noun

(verities)

(archaic) Truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth.

* 1602 : , act V scene 2

[...] but in the verity of extolment

I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion

of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of

him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would

trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.

* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.3:

For the assured truth of things is derived from the principles of knowledg, and causes which determine their verities .

A true statement; an established doctrine.

* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 290-1:

Absolutist verities were not only being challenged in more systematic and more daring forms than hitherto; the parameters of political debate were also being widened by both government and its critics.