veritas

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Shrouded in lux, I encounter veritas which is not veritas.

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  1. A name given to a register of shipping in France on the principle of Lloyd's. The name has also been used for the same purpose in Norway and in Austria.

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  • In vinas veritas is all very well, but in my experience a superabundance of alcohol is apt to impair the intellect and stimulate little but the wrong reactions. —  My Bones Will Keep - Gladys Mitchell- Bradley 35
  • After the meeting was ended, I sent to my friend Isaac Penington, by his son and servant, who returned home, though it was late, that evening, a short account of the business in the following distich Prævaluit veritas: inimnici terga dedere ; Nos sumus in tuto; laus tribuenda Deo . —  The History of Thomas Ellwood Written by Himself
  • I have long thought that the motto ' in vino veritas ' contains in it far more of ' veritas ' than is dreamt of in most people's philosophy, and that the age of rampant total abstinence is the age of special falseness. —  My Life as an Author
  • The Latin word "veritas" is translated as an individual "honesty" or —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Shrouded in lux, I encounter veritas which is not veritas. —  Yale Daily News: Latest Issue
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  1. French véritas (also bureau véritas), from Latin veritas, truth: see verity.
 

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