veritable

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It is no less true that we are confronted by an even larger reality, which can be described as a veritable structure of sin.

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  1. adjective Being truly so called; real or genuine: "Her tea ... was set forth with as much grace as if she had been a veritable guest to her own self” (Mary Wilkins Freeman).

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  • "Amphitheatre" is the word, for within the great circle, proportioned to it in size and magnificence, dwarfing all other objects, stands the veritable arena where our public gladiators and wild beasts hold their combats. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873
  • In short, the berg resembled a veritable island made of white sugar, the glittering sun-lit slopes of which contrasted finely with its green-grey shadows and the dark-blue depths of its wide rifts and profound caverns The lead or lane of water ran to within fifty yards of this ice-island, so that Rooney had a splendid view of it, and, being of a romantic turn of mind, amused himself as the oomiak glided past by peopling the white cliffs and valleys with snow-white inhabitants. —  Red Rooney The Last of the Crew
  • 'Twas then, between sweet hedgerows, under green oaks, with our feet rustling on the crisp leaves, that the world's cold reserve was first thrown off, and we found that those we loved were not goddesses made of buckram and brocade, but human beings like ourselves, with blood in their veins, and hearts in their bosoms--veritable children of Adam like ourselves Gin a body meet a body comin' through the rye." —  The Bertrams
  • He was a handsome, bright-eyed, brave and venturesome boy, and soon began to develop a very decided taste for field sports of all kinds, becoming a ready pupil and prime favorite of Captain Martin Scott, widely known as the veritable Nimrod of those days. —  'Three Score Years and Ten' Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West
  • They did considerable damage, but, at the same time, were largely responsible for stirring up a veritable wasp's nest of hostile heavies which had been lying dormant for ages, and consequently our front again became active While our F.O.O. —  Three years in France with the Guns: Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from verite; see verity.

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  1. from Old French veritable, French véritable = Italian veritevole, true, from Latin verita(t-)s, truth: see verity.
 

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/ˈvɛrɪtəbl/
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