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Veracious - 3 dictionary results

ve⋅ra⋅cious

[vuh-rey-shuhs]
–adjective
1. habitually speaking the truth; truthful; honest: a veracious witness.
2. characterized by truthfulness; true, accurate, or honest in content: a veracious statement; a veracious account.

Origin:
1670–80; veraci(ty) + -ous


ve⋅ra⋅cious⋅ly, adverb
ve⋅ra⋅cious⋅ness, noun


1, 2. mendacious.
ve·ra·cious   (və-rā'shəs)   
adj.  
  1. Honest; truthful.
  2. Accurate; precise.

[From Latin vērāx, vērāc-, truthful, from vērus, true; see wērə-o- in Indo-European roots.]
ve·ra'cious·ly adv., ve·ra'cious·ness n.

Veracious

Ve*ra"cious\, a. [L. verax, -acis, fr. verus true. See Very.]

1. Observant of truth; habitually speaking truth; truthful; as, veracious historian.

The Spirit is most perfectly and absolutely veracious. --Barrow.

2. Characterized by truth; not false; as, a veracious account or narrative.

The young, ardent soul that enters on this world with heroic purpose, with veracious insight, will find it a mad one. --Carlyle.
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