truth

The truth is that our leaders knew a lot more than they were letting on.

The truth depends on, and is only arrived at, by a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material.

1831 December 27, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Beauty—Genius”, in H[enry] N[elson] C[oleridge], editor, Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge. […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], published 1835, →OCLC, page 19:

The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.

2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892, archived from the original on 2018-11-04:

True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.

There was some truth in his statement that he had no other choice.

As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.

2012 January, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 31:

Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.

Truth to one's own feelings is all-important in life.

The state or quality of being true to someone or something.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; / But whispering tongues can poison truth; […]

1800, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Christabel. Part II.”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 32:

(obsolete) A pledge of loyalty or faith.

Ploughs, […] to make them go true, […] depends much upon the truth of the ironwork.

1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:

The process of grinding is, in fact, regarded as indispensable wherever truth is required, yet that of scraping is calculated to produce a higher degree of truth than has ever been attained by grinding.

1840, Joseph Whitworth, A Paper on Plane Metallic Surfaces or True Planes:

Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.

The truth is what is.

Alcoholism and redemption led me finally to truth.

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

1819 May, John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza 5, page 116:

That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.

Hunger and jealousy are just eternal truths of human existence.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

(countable) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.

(physics, dated) Topness; the property of a truth quark.

When asked truth or dare, he picked truth.

(games) In the game truth or dare, the choice to truthfully answer a question put forth.

en-noun

truth (usually uncountable, plural truths)

a lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

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From Middle English trouthe, truthe, trewthe, treowthe, from Old English trēowþ, trīewþ (“truth, veracity, faith, fidelity, loyalty, honour, pledge, covenant”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō (“promise, covenant, contract”), from Proto-Indo-European *drū- (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“firm, solid”), equivalent to true + -th. Cognate with Norwegian trygd (“trustworthiness, security, insurance”), Icelandic tryggð (“loyalty, fidelity”).


truth

c. 1636 John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.

(obsolete, transitive) To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully.

A concentrated region of the agricultural test area was intensively ground truthed, not only to identify the crop types, but equally important, also to begin to determine the parameters controlling the radar energy reflected from a crop type at a particular stage of growth.

1974, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, page 226:

As is shown in this table, APG images in the validation subset were only truthed with box models, and the 29P images in this subset were never truthed at all.

1990, Advanced Infrared Technology - Part 2, page cxxvi:

This database, which consisists of nearly 180,000 characters, was manually truthed.

2003, Advances in Pattern Recognition ICAPR2003, →ISBN, page 67:

To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.

You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'

1966, Nancy Sinatra, These Boots Are Made for Walkin':

(nonstandard, intransitive) To tell the truth.

en-verb

truth (third-person singular simple present truths, present participle truthing, simple past and past participle truthed)

truths (present singular third-person)
truthing (participle present)
truthed (participle past)
truthed (past)