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What Is Truth? — Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
TRUTH, noun
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Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been, or shall be. The truth of history constitutes its whole value. We rely on the truth of the scriptural prophecies.
My mouth shall speak truth (Proverbs 8:7).
Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth (John 17:17).
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True state of facts or things. The duty of a court of justice is to discover the truth. Witnesses are sworn to declare the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth
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Conformity of words to thoughts, which is called moral truth
Shall truth fail to keep her word?
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Veracity; purity from falsehood; practice of speaking truth; habitual disposition to speak truth; as when we say, a man is a man of truth