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单词 verity
释义
verity
noun
formal
uk
/ˈver.ə.ti/us
/ˈver.ə.t̬i/
[U]
thequalityof beingtrue:
真实；事实
In thefilm, heplaysaspywhosemissionis toconfirmthe verity of asecretmilitarydocument.在电影中，他扮演一名间谍，肩负的任务是弄清一份秘密军事文件的真实性。
[C]
abelief,idea, orprinciplethat isgenerallyacceptedas beingtrue:
（普遍认同的）信念，准则，真理
She hasspentherlifein asearchforeternal/scientific/universalverities.她毕生致力于追求永恒的／科学／普遍的真理。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Reality and truth
  • actuality
  • apothegm
  • authenticity
  • axiomatically
  • fact
  • gospel
  • home truth
  • immediacy
  • impostor syndrome
  • it is what it isidiom
  • practice
  • real life
  • the real McCoy
  • the real thing
  • the real world
  • truth
  • truth is stranger than fictionidiom
  • truth will outidiom
  • veracity
  • verisimilitude
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(Definition ofverityfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofverity

verity
Humans could use their understanding of these verities to confirm the truth of certain revealed doctrines.
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Since these verities are still a prevalent part of modern tribal society, the divisions between dream and myth are never clear-cut.
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On the contrary, it was to provide the writers in this chapter with an ancient mythology which had long since organized the world in terms of unchanging 'aristotcratic' verities.
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Such a situation is marked by the appearance of monographs on artists neglected for decades, exhibitions designed to disrupt the automatism of response, and revaluations destabilizing received verities.
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The old verities are being challenged.
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There is no attempt atverity; instead an abstraction-based hyper-realism governs.
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There are many variations due to the wideverityof factors involved even in small areas.
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Critics of the bearing rein relied heavily on theverityof empirical data as well as common sense when formulating arguments against its use.
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Religious leaders in other faiths also display little interest in technological advance, which they often see competing with their concepts of the eternal verities.
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The value of art, on the other hand, is to do with the eternal verities.
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The conditions of life are now such that individuals have drifted away from those verities.
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Nonetheless, clearly we are not dealing with the eternal verities, but with a practical matter on which a practical judgment has to be made.
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The average man in the street does not really believe there are any great eternal verities on this subject.
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He never stopped growing, and the truths on which he constructed his philosophy were not the fashion of any one period: they were timeless verities.
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I will remind him of the three important verities to which he gave tongue.
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