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truth
English
Alternative forms
- trewth (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English trouthe, truthe, trewthe, treowthe, from Old English tr?owþ, tr?ewþ (“truth, veracity, faith, fidelity, loyalty, honour, pledge, covenant”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþ? (“promise, covenant, contract”), from Proto-Indo-European *dr?- (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“firm, solid”), equivalent to true +? -th. Cognate with Norwegian trygd (“trustworthiness, security, insurance”), Icelandic tryggð (“loyalty, fidelity”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: tr??th, IPA(key): /t?u??/
- Rhymes: -u??
Noun
truth (usually uncountable, plural truths)
- True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
- Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
- The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
- (archaic) Faithfulness, fidelity.
- 1797-1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel
- Alas! they had been friends in youth, / But whispering tongues can poison truth.
- 1797-1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel
- (obsolete) A pledge of loyalty or faith.
- Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
- Ploughs, […] to make them go true, […] depends much upon the truth of the ironwork.
- 1840, Joseph Whitworth, "A Paper on Plane Metallic Surfaces or True Planes":
- The process of grinding is, in fact, regarded as indispensable wherever truth is required, yet that of scraping is calculated to produce a higher degree of truth than has ever been attained by grinding.
- That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
- (countable) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
- (physics, dated) Topness; the property of a truth quark.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:truth
Antonyms
- falsehood, falsity, lie, nonsense, drivel, untruth, half-truth
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
truth (third-person singular simple present truths, present participle truthing, simple past and past participle truthed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully.
- c. 1636 John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
- Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.
- c. 1636 John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
- To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.
- (nonstandard, intransitive) To tell the truth.
- 1966, Nancy Sinatra, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"
- You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'
- 1966, Nancy Sinatra, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"
See also
- truth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- truth at OneLook Dictionary Search
- truth in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- truth in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Hurtt
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precept
English
Alternative forms
- præcept (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin praeceptum, form of praecipi? (“to teach”), from Latin prae (“pre-”) + capi? (“take”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?i?s?pt/
Noun
precept (plural precepts)
- A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
- 2006: Theodore Dalrymple, The Gift of Language
- I need hardly point out that Pinker doesn't really believe anything of what he writes, at least if example is stronger evidence of belief than precept.
- 2006: Theodore Dalrymple, The Gift of Language
- (law) A written command, especially a demand for payment.
- (Britain) An order issued by one local authority to another specifying the rate of tax to be charged on its behalf.
- A rate or tax set by a precept.
- A rate or tax set by a precept.
Translations
Verb
precept (third-person singular simple present precepts, present participle precepting, simple past and past participle precepted)
- (obsolete) To teach by precepts.
- 1603, Francis Bacon, Valerius Terminus: Of The Interpretation of Nature
- the axioms of sciences are precepted to be made convertible
- 1603, Francis Bacon, Valerius Terminus: Of The Interpretation of Nature
References
- “precept”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Anagrams
- percept
Old Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin praeceptum, form of praecipi? (“to teach”), from prae (“pre-”) + capi? (“take”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?r?e??ept/
Noun
precept f (genitive precepte)
- verbal noun of pridchaid
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10d23
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 21c19
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10d23
Inflection
Mutation
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “precept”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Romanian
Etymology
From French précepte, from Latin praeceptum.
Noun
precept n (plural precepte)
- precept
Declension
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