Truth \Truth\, n.; pl. {Truths}. [OE. treuthe, trouthe, treowpe, AS. tre['o]w?. See {True}; cf. {Troth}, {Betroth}.] 1. The quality or being true; as: (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be. (b) Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like.
Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork. --Mortimer. (c) Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.
Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth. --Coleridge. (d) The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity.
If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. --Shak.
2. That which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality.
Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor. --Zech. viii. 16.
I long to know the truth here of at large. --Shak.
The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material. --Coleridge.
3. A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals.
Even so our boasting . . . is found a truth. --2 Cor. vii. 14.
4. Righteousness; true religion.
Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. --John i. 17.
Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth. --John xvii. 17.
{In truth}, in reality; in fact.
{Of a truth}, in reality; certainly.
{To do truth}, to practice what God commands.
He that doeth truth cometh to the light. --John iii. 21.
Until late in his life an office and secretary in the Cabinet Office were reserved for his use. For more than 50 years Solly Zuckerman continued to tell people unpalatable truths, sometimes with charm but often with impatience.
While the foreign investigators were free to pursue truths about THA and gain vital experience, over a dozen applications by qualified Americans remain on hold, this writer's among them.
One is religion, which claims that revelation from outside the world conveys truths undiscoverable by human inquiry within it.
Another is relativism, the view that different truths, different views, different ways of thinking, are all equally valid and that there is no authoritative standpoint from which they can be adjudicated.
Bernd Weikl has added humour to his down-to-earth Sachs, but there is not the wisdom or depth to make us believe this character capable of uttering eternal truths. For Mackerras the season has brought Verdi, Puccini and - naturally - Janacek.
Mendes' production remains too earth bound and tentative to do full justice to the eternal truths but it is a brave stab at a great play.
In September 1974, when busloads of black children pulled up for the first time at South Boston High School, the ensuing rock-throwing and racial curses reminded the nation of two truths it might have preferred to forget.
By shielding governments from uncomfortable truths, they can encourage a myopic view of the world. Impressive strides This holds dangers for Malaysia, which aims to become fully industrialised by 2020.
Traditional literary critics believe that certain brilliant authors have created books that illuminate the human qualities, emotions and truths that are innate in all people across culture or the historical moment.
In economics, old truths often are revealed as old errors.
Why are such truths forgotten?
There is an inevitable regional accent - we are in a province of the Roman Empire rather than Rome itself - but Balanchine's truths about musical responsiveness and dynamic clarity are respected.
It is a manifesto as concerned with practicalities as with political philosophy. The new government will remain faithful to the central economic 'truths' of the 1980s.
Mr Rifkind's concessions will comfort those who prefer old glories to harsher truths.
Those too young to recall earlier bloodbaths thought they had identified new truths when they were succumbing to old lies.
But obscuring these truths about guerrilla war has been central to the propaganda campaign for the contras.
Some of Fussell's truths: _Wars are fought by boys, innocent of life's experiences.
These are the truths that have been passed down like precious heirlooms from generation to generation since the generations began.
Gorbachev's efforts to reform his country have not fundamentally altered these truths," Webster said, adding that they arguably may make the Soviets an even greater threat.
We are led by the maker's own dicta to expect a feminist fable gritted with everyday truths.
The phrasing of those "truths" was very familiar.
'The old political truths have vanished.' The ending of east-west division and the reunification of Germany spawned the Maastricht treaty, aimed at accelerating west European integration.
However, it will teach us all some basic truths about gardening. The first is about weeds.