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

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca