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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Honest; truthful.
  2. adj. Accurate; precise.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Truthful; habitually disposed to speak truth; observant of truth.
  2. Characterized by truth; true; not false: as, a veracious account or narrative.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. truthful

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Observant of truth; habitually speaking truth; truthful.
  2. adj. Characterized by truth; true; not false.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. precisely accurate
  2. adj. habitually speaking the truth

Etymologies

  1. From Latin verac- +‎ -ious, stem of vērāx ("truthful"), from vērus ("true"). (Wiktionary)
  2. From Latin vērāx, vērāc-, truthful, from vērus, true. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • kingparton For man has ever been a striving, struggling, and, in spite of wide-spread calumnies to the contrary, a veracious creature.

    Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present Nov 12, 2011

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