different between verity vs candor

English

Etymology

From Middle English verite, from Anglo-Norman verité or Middle French verité, from Old French verité, from Latin v?rit?s, from the adjective v?rus (“true”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v???ti/

Noun

verity (countable and uncountable, plural verities)

1. Truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth; veracity.
   • 1602 : William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 2

     [...] 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.

   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:

     For the assured truth of things is derived from the principles of knowledg, and causes which determine their verities.
2. A true statement; an established doctrine.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 290-1:

     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.

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English

Alternative forms

• candour (British and Canadian)

Etymology

From Latin candor (“brightness, whiteness”), from cande? (“I shine”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kæn.d?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?kæn.d?/

Noun

candor (usually uncountable, plural candors) (American spelling)

1. (obsolete) Whiteness; brilliance; purity. [c. 1500–?]
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, Hesperides, "To his Booke":

     Whilst thou didst keep thy Candor undefil'd,

     Deerly I lov'd thee; as my first-born child ...

2. The state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression. [from c. 1600]

   Synonyms: frankness, honesty, sincerity, parrhesia

   Antonyms: deception, fraud, lie

3. Impartiality.

   Synonyms: equity, fairness

Related terms

• candid

Translations

Anagrams

• Cardon, Conard, Condra, Conrad, Dacron, ancrod, cardon, dacron

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin candor.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /k?n?do/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kan?do?/

Noun

candor m or f (plural candors)

1. candor

Related terms

• càndid

Further reading

• “candor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “candor” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “candor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “candor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Etymology

From cande? (“to shine, glitter; glow”) +? -or.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kan.dor/, [?kän?d??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kan.dor/, [?k?n?d??r]

Noun

candor m (genitive cand?ris); third declension

1. a dazzling or glossy whiteness; clearness, radiance, brightness
2. fairness, beauty
3. glow, heat
4. (of speech) splendor, brilliance
5. (of mind or character) frankness, openness, candor, purity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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Descendants

References

• candor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• candor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• candor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• candor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin candor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kan?do?/, [kãn??d?o?]
• Rhymes: -o?

Noun

candor m (plural candores)

1. candor

Related terms

• cándido

Further reading

• “candor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.