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VERACITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unwillingness to tell lies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("veracity" is a kind of...):
truthfulness (the quality of being truthful)
Antonym:
mendacity (the tendency to be untruthful)
Derivation:
veracious (habitually speaking the truth)
Context examples:
There is an air of truth apparent through the whole; and indeed the author was so distinguished for his veracity, that it became a sort of proverb among his neighbours at Redriff, when any one affirmed a thing, to say, it was as true as if Mr. Gulliver had spoken it.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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