Noun

(order of senses) (en-noun)

The state or quality of being true to someone or something.

(label) Faithfulness, fidelity.

* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)

Alas! they had been friends in youth, / But whispering tongues can poison truth .

(label) A pledge of loyalty or faith.

True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.

* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)

The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Magician’s brain , passage=The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.}}

Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01, author=Robert M. Pringle, volume=100, issue=1, page=31, magazine=(American Scientist), title= How to Be Manipulative

, passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}

Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.

* John Mortimer (1656?-1736)

Ploughs, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork.

That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.

* 1820 , (John Keats), (Ode on a Grecian Urn)

Beauty is truth', ' truth beauty, - that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

(label) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.

* 1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice)

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Topness. (See also truth quark.)

Noun

(uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.

(countable) An idea or a plan offered.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.}}

(countable, business settings) The terms of a transaction offered.

(countable, US, politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.

(countable, logic) The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion.

(countable, mathematics) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.

(countable, mathematics) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.

A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed.

the propositions of Wyclif and Huss

* Jeremy Taylor

Some persons change their propositions according as their temporal necessities or advantages do turn.

(poetry) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.