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Veracious adj.

Observant of truth; habitually speaking truth; truthful; as, veracious historian. "The Spirit is most perfectly and absolutely veracious."

Characterized by truth; true; not false; as, a veracious account or narrative. "The young, ardent soul that enters on this world with heroic purpose, with veracious insight, will find it a mad one."

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Etymology of 'Veracious'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Veracious" Quotes from Famous Books

... disclosed such for instance, as the permeability of solid bodies by luminous rays and the possibility of photographic examination of bony tissues in living creatures—facts entirely incompatible with prevailing ideas and teachings. But these facts were not only intrinsically veracious but were capable of occular demonstration, beyond all possibility of doubt, and thus, as nothing could be changed or refuted, science found itself compelled, for once, to honour the truth in its initial stage—to ...

— Valere Aude - Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration • Louis Dechmann

... a very strange old gentleman whose eccentricity had become the nucleus for a thousand fantastic stories. Some of these fables—to my shame be it spoken—might possibly be traced back to mine own veracious self; and if any passages of the present tale should startle the reader's faith, I must be content to bear the stigma ...

— Twice Told Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... statistical, concerning a place which figures conspicuously in the early pages of his history, will not be unacceptable. I allude, Sir, to the ancient and renowned village of Communipaw, which, according to the veracious Diedrich, and to equally veracious tradition, was the first spot where our ever-to-be-lamented Dutch progenitors planted their standard and cast the seeds of empire, and from whence subsequently sailed the ...

— Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies • Washington Irving

... no doubt, wishes to know what became of the heroine of a story only too veracious in its details; a chronicle which, taken with its twin sister the preceding volume, La Cousine Bette, proves that Character is a great social force. You, O amateurs, connoisseurs, and dealers, will guess at once that Pons' collection is now in question. ...

— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac

... not omit the strictly veracious witness who was sworn to testify how many students were engaged in a noisy night frolic at Norwich. "As fur as I know, there was betwixt ...

— Memories and Anecdotes • Kate Sanborn

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