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verity | faithfulness |

As a proper noun verity

is derived from the latin for truth; one of the puritan virtue names.

As a noun faithfulness is

the state of being faithful; allegiance; loyalty; fidelity.

verity

English

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.

    faithfulness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of being faithful; allegiance; loyalty; fidelity.