Associations to the word «Verity»

Wiktionary

VERITY, noun. (archaic) Truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth.
VERITY, noun. A true statement; an established doctrine.
VERITY, proper noun. A female given name derived from the Latin for truth; one of the Puritan virtue names.

Dictionary definition

VERITY, noun. Conformity to reality or actuality; "they debated the truth of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous for the truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities".
VERITY, noun. An enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope