different between verity vs veritable

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

Etymology

From Middle French veritable, from Old French veritable, from Latin veritabilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?.??.t?.bl/

Adjective

veritable (comparative more veritable, superlative most veritable)

1. True; genuine.

   • Life in the Middle Ages was a colossal religious game. The dominant value was salvation in a life hereafter. Emphasizing that "to divorce medieval hysteria from its time and place is not possible," Gallinek observes: It was the aim of man to leave all things worldly as far behind as possible, and already during lifetime to approach the kingdom of heaven. The aim was salvation. Salvation was the Christian master motive.—The ideal man of the Middle Ages was free of all fear because he was sure of salvation, certain of eternal bliss. He was the saint, and the saint, not the knight nor the troubadour, is the veritable ideal of the Middle Ages.

   He is a veritable genius.

   A fair is a veritable smorgasbord. (From Charlotte's Web).

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Anagrams

• avertible, rivetable

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin veritabilis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /v?.?i?ta.bl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /b?.?i?ta.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ve.?i?ta.ble/

Adjective

veritable (masculine and feminine plural veritables)

1. real; true; veritable

   Synonyms: vertader, autèntic, real, legítim

Derived terms

• veritablement

Further reading

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

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French veritable.

Adjective

veritable m or f (plural veritables)

1. true; real; not fake

Descendants

• ? English: veritable
• French: véritable

Old French

Etymology

From Latin veritabilis.

Adjective

veritable m (oblique and nominative feminine singular veritable)

1. true; real; not fake

Descendants

• Middle French: veritable
  • ? English: veritable
  • French: véritable