truth

I noun accuracy, actuality, authenticity, candor, conformity to fact, correctness, exactness, fact, genuineness, honesty, integrity, precision, probity, realism, reality, right, sincerity, veracity, veritas, verity associated concepts: credibility of a witness, reputation for truth, truth in lending laws foreign phrases:

- Error fucatus nuda veritate in multis, est probabilior; et saepenumero rationibus vincit veritatem error. — Error artfully disguised is, in many instances, more probable than naked truth, and frequently error overwhelms truth by argumentation

- Veritas nimium altercando amittitur. — Truth is lost by too much altercation

- Sacramentum habet in se tres comites, – veritatem, justitiam, et judicium; veritus habenda est in jurato; justitia et justicium in judice. — An oath has in it three components, – truth, justice, and judgment, truth in the party swearing; justice and judgment in the judge administering the oath.

- Fictio cedit veritati. fictio juris non est ubi Veritas. — Fiction yields to truth, where truth is, fiction of law does not exist.

- Qui non libere veritatem pronunciat proditor est veritatis. — He who does not freely speak the truth is a betrayer of the truth.

- Veritas, quae minime defensatur opprimitur; et qui non improbat, approbat — Truth which is not sufficiently defended is overpowered; and he who does not disapprove, approves.

- Veritas nihil veretur nisi abscondl. — Truth fears nothing but concealment.

II index fact, honesty, maxim, principle (virtue), probity, reality, right (righteousness), validity, veracity