Verity vs Veracity - What's the difference?
verity | veracity |
(archaic) Truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth.
* 1602 : , act V scene 2
* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.3:
A true statement; an established doctrine.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 290-1:
(uncountable) Truthfulness
(countable) Something that is true
(uncountable) Accuracy or precision
act of being exact and accurate.
correctness and carefulness in one's plan of action.
Veracity is a related term of verity.
As nouns the difference between verity and veracity
is that verity is truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth while veracity is truthfulness.As a proper noun Verity
is {{given name|female|from=English}} derived from the Latin for truth; one of the Puritan virtue names.verity
English
Noun
(verities)- [...] 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.
- For the assured truth of things is derived from the principles of knowledg, and causes which determine their verities .
- 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.
