veracity

Roget-categorie 543

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.9. Modes of communication
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#543. Veracity

zelfstandig naamwoord

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.

werkwoord

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.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

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.

bijwoord

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.

uitdrukking

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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