Truth /(?)/

pl. Truths

1. The quality or being true; as: -- (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.
2. Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like.

   Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork.

3. Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.

   Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth.

4. The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity.

   If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth.

5. That which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality.

   Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor.

   I long to know the truth here of at large.

   The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material.

6. A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals.

   Even so our boasting . . . is found a truth.

7. Righteousness; true religion.

   Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

   Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.

   He that doeth truth cometh to the light.

1. To assert as true; to declare. [R.]

   Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.