"ring of truth" meaning in English

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          "text": "At first I wasn't even sure I could believe the story, but I later felt it had a ring of truth to it.",
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          "ref": "1874, Edward Payson Roe, chapter 20, in Opening a Chestnut Burr:",
          "text": "I am too well accustomed to the taking of evidence not to detect the ring of truth.",
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          "ref": "1908, Edith Wharton, The Pretext:",
          "text": "She could hear the ring of truth in young Dawnish's voice.",
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          "ref": "2006 February 20, “Verbatim”, in Time:",
          "text": "It is fiction. But it has the absolute ring of truth.",
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          "ref": "2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Noveria:",
          "text": "Merchant Opold: This one promised compensation for services rendered. It humbly suggests that a sum of 250 credits would be most appropriate.\nShepard: Would you have had any chance of getting this past customs without me? You can be a bit more generous.\nMerchant Opold: The other's words possess the discomforting ring of truth.\nMerchant Opold: This one could raise the sum to 500 credits. That is half this one's profit taken by the other. It can offer no more.",
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        "The impression of being truthful; especially of a statement or literary work; verisimilitude."
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          "word": "truthiness"
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        {
          "word": "ring of authenticity"
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        {
          "word": "believability"
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          "word": "credibility"
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          "roman": "zhēnshíxìng",
          "sense": "impression of being truthful",
          "word": "真實性 /真实性"
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          "sense": "impression of being truthful",
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          "word": "todelta kuulostava"
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      "word": "真實性 /真实性"
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