Truth (?), n.; pl. Truths (#). [OE. treuthe, trouthe, treowpe, AS. treow. 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.
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Truth, v. t.
To assert as true; to declare.
[R.]
Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.
Ford.
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