verity

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

VER'ITY, noun [Latin veritas, from verus, true.] 1. Truth; consonance of a statement, proposition or other thing to fact. 1 Timothy 2:7. It is a proposition of eternal verity that none can govern while he is despised. 2. A true assertion or tenet. By this it seems to be a verity 3. Moral truth; agreement of the words with the thoughts.
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