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  • noun Plural form of veracity.

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Examples

  • He could still penetrate through the fog of semiliterate police reports, technical gibberish, precedents, motions, testimony, lies and veracities, to a place where the truth lay plain.

    Enemy Within Robert K. Tanenbaum 2002

  • He could still penetrate through the fog of semiliterate police reports, technical gibberish, precedents, motions, testimony, lies and veracities, to a place where the truth lay plain.

    Enemy Within Robert K. Tanenbaum 2002

  • He could still penetrate through the fog of semiliterate police reports, technical gibberish, precedents, motions, testimony, lies and veracities, to a place where the truth lay plain.

    Enemy Within Robert K. Tanenbaum 2002

  • But when all is said it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that in the last analysis lack of truth argues a deficient trust in the ultimate veracities of the universe, and rests upon a practical unbelief in the divine providence which can make 'all things work together for good to them that love God.'

    Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics Archibald B. C. Alexander

  • To spoil a child is no easy task, for Nature is all the time working in behalf of the childish virtues and veracities, and is gently correcting the abnormalities of education.

    Humanly Speaking Samuel McChord Crothers

  • And yet those veracities of theirs were so torn from all connection with fact and truth, that they became falsehoods; and they were, as has been said, nothing more than "orthodox liars" in the sight of God.

    Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series Frederick W. Robertson

  • For who had thought before her of making women's stitches write or paint a great historical event, crowded with homely details which now are dubbed archaeological veracities?

    In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

  • It is possible, on the other hand, for a man to utter veracities, and yet at the very time that he is uttering those veracities to be false to himself, to his brother, and to his God.

    Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series Frederick W. Robertson

  • It is positively safe to say that neither of the two veracities would ever have been set upon paper had Herbert and Henry any foreshadowing that Patty might be careless; and the partners would have been seized with the utmost horror could they have conceived the possibility of their trustful messages ever falling into the hands of the relentless creature who now, without an instant's honourable hesitation, unfolded and read them.

    Gentle Julia Booth Tarkington 1907

  • There _is_ a bracing quality about family criticism, if we are strong enough to bear its veracities.

    Americans and Others Agnes Repplier 1904

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