- 1真理、恆常不變的道理（文言、書面語）
A truth of the deep and lasting kind — the sort of thing that was true for your and will be true for your grandchildren. People rarely use it for a single fact. You would not say 'the verity is that it rained yesterday'. You say it about big human truths: love, death, hunger, kindness. It is most often plural, and most often in fixed-sounding phrases: the eternal verities, the old verities, the simple verities of family life. Writers reach for it when they want weight and a little solemnity. It is formal and now rather old-fashioned; in ordinary speech people just say 'truth'. There is also a rarer, drier use in law and formal writing, meaning simply truthfulness — 'the verity of his statement was questioned' — but even lawyers today usually write 'the truth of'. So for your purposes: when you meet 'verity' in a book, read it as 'a truth that does not change'. When you write, know that the word carries a whiff of old speeches and old novels, and use it on purpose or not at all.
組成From Old French verité, from Latin vēritās 'truth', from vērus 'true'. A doublet of veritas — the same Latin word, borrowed twice, once through French and once straight from Latin.
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Verityname/ˈvɛɹɪti/
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A female given name from English derived from the Latin for truth; one of the Puritan virtue names.
veritynoun/ˈvɛɹɪti/
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Truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth; veracity.
- [...] but in the verity of extolment I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
- For the assured truth of things is derived from the principles of knowledg, and causes which determine their verities.
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A true statement; an established doctrine.
- Absolutist verities were not only being challenged in more systematic and more daring forms than hitherto; the parameters of political debate were also being widened by both government and its critics.
- Now populists recycle communist verities: the fetishisation of working-class culture, the vision of a good “people” fighting a bad elite, the belief that the state should control business and the dismissal of parliamentary democracy as a bourgeois sham.
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