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veriest | verist |

As an adjective veriest

is (very); truest, most.

As a noun verist is

one who subscribes to verism.

veriest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (very); truest, most
  • *
    • Though in the course of his continual voyagings Ahab must often before have noticed a similar sight, yet, to any monomaniac man, the veriest trifles capriciously carry meanings.
  • *
    • If it had come to crawling before Mr. Kurtz, he crawled as much as the veriest savage of them all.
  • * 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.81:
    • He wheeled away down the narrow sandy street like the veriest derelict.

    Synonyms

    * (truest) (l), (l)

    Anagrams

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    verist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who subscribes to verism.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1903, author=David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford, title=Donatello, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It is the creation of a verist , of a naturalist, founded on a clear and intimate perception of nature. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1910, author=James Huneker, title=Promenades of an Impressionist, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He is, nevertheless, a realist--a verist , as he prefers to be called. }} ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    • Declension

    {{sh-decl-noun , verist, veristi , verista, verista , veristu, veristima , verista, veriste , veristu, veristi , veristu, veristima , veristem, veristima }}

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