🔍 牛津詞典
🔍 朗文詞典
🔍 劍橋詞典
🔍 柯林斯詞典
🔍 麥美倫詞典
🔍 韋氏詞典 🎯

檢索以下詞典:
(Mr. Ng 不推薦使用 Google 翻譯!)
最近搜尋:
BNC: 13508 COCA: 25873

verity

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
verity /ˈverəti/ noun
plural verities
verity
/ˈverəti/
noun
plural verities
Learner's definition of VERITY
[count] formal
: something that is regarded as true真理;准则;信念usually plural通常用复数
BNC: 13508 COCA: 25873

verity

noun

ver·​i·​ty ˈver-ə-tē How to pronounce verity (audio)
plural verities
1
: the quality or state of being true or real
2
: something (such as a statement) that is true
especially : a fundamental and inevitably true value
such eternal verities as honor, love, and patriotism
3
: the quality or state of being truthful or honest
the king-becoming graces, as justice, verity William Shakespeare

Example Sentences

the local tourist bureau is less concerned with the verity of the legend than the fact that it attracts visitors to the area no one is questioning your verity—just your memory of events that happened long ago
Recent Examples on the Web Among them is one verity that sets the company’s surreptitious nature at the center of its culture. John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 3 Aug. 2022 The space, unencumbered by outside (read: white) expectations that can often influence the verity of the work, allows filmmakers to share their projects with the world exactly as they were meant to be shared. Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 18 Mar. 2022 Each asked for more personal information than would be necessary to mail a blank card, like date of birth and telephone number, making a verity of claims. NBC News, 16 Sep. 2021 Eliza Hittman has written and directed with the utmost delicacy and verity. Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2020 Old political verities proved worthless, and government largely failed to relieve the disaster. Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2020 The suspension also emphasizes fundamental verities: unequal-length control arms in front, a massive Jaguar-like multi-link independent setup in the back. Michael Jordan, Car and Driver, 21 Apr. 2020 March has brought us verities, data, and a plague—together with a new set of questions that are already reshaping the 2020 campaign. John A. Farrell, The New Republic, 16 Apr. 2020 Myth, magic and superstition are inextricably intertwined with everyday verities, a technique that caused Ms. Morrison’s novels to be likened often to those of Latin American magic realist writers like Gabriel García Márquez. Margalit Fox, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2015 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English verite, borrowed from Anglo-French verité, borrowed from Latin vēritāt-, vēritās, from vērus "true" + -itāt-, -itās -ity — more at very entry 2

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of verity was in the 14th century
BNC: 13508 COCA: 25873

👨🏻‍🏫 Mr. Ng 韋氏詞典 📚 – mw.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文
Site Uptime