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VEBITABLENESS.
System of Ethics. 187a Morley Voltaire (18S6) 8 A moral
relish for veritable proofs of honesty.
b. Of things or persons.
1649 Earl Mon.m. tr. Soiauifs Use Passions 9 The same
Philosophers.. im.igined it [the soul] had parts as well as the
body, and though they were more subtle, they were not less
veritable. 1833 Lamb Elia it. Imaginative Faculty in
Productions Mod. Art, He had painted a laudable orchard,
with fitting seclusion, and a veritable dragon. 1852 Miss
YoxcE Cameos II. xxiii. 249 A veritable personage was
Whittington. 1881 Lit. World^x Jan. 37/1 Nelson, we all
know, was a veritable sea king.
C. With ihe^ in emphatic use.
1831 Miss MiTFORD in L'Estrange Life (1870) Il.xiv. 320
A cast of the skull of Raphael—the veritable skull dug up
at Rome. 1856 Kane Arct. Expl. 11. i% 94 Next, sugar;
what complex memories the word brings back I— the veritable
sugar has been long ago defunct. 1871 Blackik Four
Phases i. 150, I who am now talking.. am the veritable
Socrates.
3. In extended use, denoting possession of all the
distinctive qualities of the person or thing specified.
1863 C. Stretton C/uguered Life I. 24, I tell you that
Charley is a veritable eel. 1869 A. Harwood tr. De Pressenses
Early Years Chr, in. i, 360 They had a succession
of governors who were veritable brigands. 1897 Standard
2 Feb. 7/5 At Rochefort there was. .a veritable hail of tiles,
slates, etc. blown off the roofs.
t4. K%adv. Veritably, truly. Obs."'^
_ 1490 Caxton Eneydos xxvi. 93, I beleue veritable that it
is \ox to take vengeaunce of the feyth it of the grete othe.
whiche I haue violated falsly.
Hence Verltableness, truth, veracity. rare^K
1664 J. Newburch in Evelyn Pomona, etc. 44, I am so
well assured of the veritableness of my neighbours relation,
that I dare not question it.
Veritably (ve-ritabU), adv, [f. Veritable a.
+ -LY '-^.J In a veritable manner ; with truth or
verity ; truly, truthfully ; genuinely, really,
1481 Caxton Godfrey cxliii. 214 The nombre of them that
were slayn was neuer verytabty knowen. a 1^13 Fabvan
Chron. I. xxiii. 18 Kymarchus y* sone of Secilius, as some
wryters haue, but more veritably as sayth y* olde Cronycle,
the brother of lago was made ruler of Hrytayne. c 153a Du
Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. ^27 Veritably, veritablement.
1567 '^\.K\'\x.i: Gr.F'orest 25 b, They esteeme many things by
figure and fanticie, but few veritably and vprightly.
1804 Anna Seward /.*//. (181 1) VI. 143 Allpossible hazard
may be precluded, by observing more veritably to the
youthful reader, that [etcj. 1875 Poste Gains ii. {ed. 2)
237 Veritably afterborn, that is to say born after their father
has made his will,
Ve'ritism. [f. VEniT-Y+-i8M.] — Verism.
So Ve-ritist, Veriti'stio a. = Vebist, Vebistic a.
Originally and chiefly U.S.
1894 Nation (N.V.) 19 July 53/2 Veriiism is the name by
which devils are to be cast out, and the artist himself is to
be a veritist. 1894 H. Gari^nd in Forum (N.V.) Aug. 690
My own conception is that realism for veriiism) is the truthful
statement of an individual impression corrected by reference
to the fact. Ibid.^ The veritist chooses for his subject
not the impossible, not even the possible, but always the
probable. Ibid. 693 The critic cannot distinguish between
the entirely fictitious characters of the veritistic novel and
the characters drawn from life.
Verity (veriti). Forms: 5 varyte, ^tr. weryte,
5-6 verite, Sc, veryte, 6 veriteo, Sc, varite
5-6 .SV. veretie, 6 veritye, verytie, ueritio, Sc,
werietie, weratie, 6-7 veritie, Sc, verritie, 7verity.
[a. AF. and OF. verite^ veritet (mod.F.
virite^-\x.. verith^ Prov. vetifaty vertat^ verdady
Sp. verdady Vg. verdade) :-L. vl-ritat^^ Veritas, f.
ver-us true, Very a. : see -ITY,
App. not in common use in the i8th cent., but revived in
the lotb.]
1. Without article. Truth, either in general or
with reference to a particular fact ; conformity to
fact or reality. Also persottif,
c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints i. {Peter) 254 Bot-gyf J>at pece be
and Concorde, to fynd veryte In-to na thing may be profyte.
i4»a VoNGE tr. Secreta Secret, 161 Verite getyth hatredyn.
Ihid.^ Verite [is] caste doune, whan any vnryghtly thynge is
preferrid to trouthe. c X470 Henbv Wallace viii. 1406 And
verite war seyn, That ye me lufTyt, I awcht yow luff agayn.
1540-1 Elvot Image Gov. 87 Than dcmaunded he of hym,
what thyng he professed. He aunswered ; Veritee. 1579
W. FuLKE Con/ut. Sanders 577 IJetweene veritie & falsitie
there is no meane. 164a H. Moke Song of Soul \\. in, iii.
58 Mirth, and Frec-mindednesse, Simplicitic,. .These be the
lovely play-mates of pure veritie. 1653 Gataker V'ind.
Ann0t. Jer. 66 Historical verity, saith he, shews the
sepulkers of their false Gods here on earth. z6$^ G. Thomas
Pensilvania 10, I.. have ,ill along, and shall still declare
nothing but Veritv. 1816 Scott Old Mart, xxxiii. He is a
prelatist . . , and all, anj more than all, that has been said of
him must needs be verity. 1851 Carlvle Sterling 11. vl.
(1872) 137 A little verdant flowery island ofpoetic intellect,
of melodious human verity. 1874 H. R. Reynolds John
Bapt. V. } 2. 325 The hypothesis of Catholic verity does
not attempt to solve the problem.
Comb. x8oa-sa I!bntham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1837) I.
191 A motive of any description may be termed a veracity
or verity- promoting, or mendacity-restraining, motive.
b. In various prepositional phrases and constructions
used adverbially, freq. with emphatic force,
as in (f of) verity,
14.. Sir Beues (S.) ^313 + 127 Foure l>ousand men, pur
varyte, J»ey brou^ten with hem to Lundone cyte. 1533 Gau
Rickt Vay y^ Hir cleyne virginite wes (wjvnderlie and in
verite prouine be the prophetls. a 1557 Diurn. Qccurr.
(Bann. CI.) 14 Thenuhilk Johne Scott fastit without meit or
drink of veritie xxxij dayes. 1597 Hookkr Fleet. Pol. v. Ivii.
f 5 For we take not baptism nor the eucharist for bareresem-
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blances. ,, but (as they are indeed and in verity) for means
effectual. 1849 James Woodman xxxiv. It is somewhat
sudden in verity and truth ; but he must depart for Dorset
by daybreak to-morrow. 1875 Ruskin F'ors Clav. Ivi. 231
In verity it was not I who fed my nurse, but my nurse me.
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