veracity
Roget category 543
4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties› 4.9. Modes of communication
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#543.
Veracity
noun
veracity —
truthfulness,
frankness,
etc.
adj. —
truth,
sincerity,
candor,
unreserve†,
honesty,
fidelity —
plain dealing,
bona fides [Lat.] —
love of truth —
probity
etc.
939 —
ingenuousness
etc.
(artlessness)
703.
the truth the whole truth and nothing but the the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth —
honest truth,
sober truth
etc.
(fact)
494 —
unvarnished tale —
light of truth.
verb
speak the truth,
tell the truth —
speak by the card —
paint in its true colors,
show oneself in one's true colors —
make a clean breast
etc.
(disclose)
529 —
speak one's mind
etc.
(be blunt)
703 —
not lie
etc.
544,
not deceive
etc.
545.
adjective
truthful,
true —
veracious,
veridical —
scrupulous
etc.
(honorable)
939 —
sincere,
candid,
frank,
open,
straightforward,
unreserved —
open hearted,
true hearted,
simple-hearted —
honest,
trustworthy —
undissembling
etc.
(dissemble)
etc.
544† —
guileless,
pure —
truth-loving —
unperjured† —
true blue,
as good as one's word —
unaffected,
unfeigned,
bona fide —
outspoken,
ingenuous
etc.
(artless)
703 —
undisguised
etc.
(real)
494.
uncontrived.
adverb
truly
etc.
(really)
494 —
in plain words
etc.
703 —
in truth,
with truth,
of a truth,
in good truth —
as the dial to the sun,
as the needle to the pole —
honor bright —
troth —
in good sooth†,
in good earnest —
unfeignedly,
with no nonsense,
in sooth†,
sooth to say†,
bona fide,
in foro conscientiae [Lat.] —
without equivocation —
cartes sur table,
from the bottom of one's heart —
by my troth
etc.
(affirmation)
535.
phrase
di il vero a affronterai il diavolo [It] —
Dichtung und Wahrheit [G.] —
esto quod esse videris [Lat.] —
magna est veritas et praevalet [Lat.] —
that golden key that opes the palace of that golden key that opes the palace of eternity"
[Milton];
veritas odium parit [Lat.] —
veritatis simplex oratio est [Lat.] —
verite sans peur [Fr.].
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