Verity vs Verily - What's the difference?
verity | verily |
(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:
truly, doubtlessly, in truth
confidently, certainly
As a noun verity
is truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth.As a proper noun Verity
is {{given name|female|from=English}} derived from the Latin for truth; one of the Puritan virtue names.As an adverb verily is
truly, doubtlessly, in truth.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.