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- noun Plural form of
truth .
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Examples
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It is true, I am going to tell you unwelcome truths, but I mean to speak these _truths in love_, and remember Solomon says, "faithful are the _wounds_ of a friend."
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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It is true, I am going to tell you unwelcome truths, but I mean to speak those _truths in love_, and remember Solomon says, "faithful are the _wounds_ of a friend."
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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It is true, I am going to tell you unwelcome truths, but I mean to speak those _truths in love_, and remember Solomon says, "faithful are the _wounds_ of a friend."
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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It is true, I am going to tell you unwelcome truths, but I mean to speak these _truths in love_, and remember Solomon says, "faithful are the _wounds_ of a friend."
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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Such are called _self-evident propositions_; and the truths that they express, _necessary truths_.
Moral Philosophy Joseph Rickaby 1888
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It is true, I am going to tell you unwelcome truths, but I mean to speak those _truths in love_, and remember
An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South Angelina Emily Grimke 1842
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But do we very commonly enjoy them as truly as did the “Friends of God,” who felt and experienced in their inmost hearts, that which we know as truths, and perhaps feel the less, because it is as truths that we have learnt these things, and not as the blessed answer of the heart of God to the longing desire of His ignorant children?
Three Friends of God: Records from the Lives of John Tauler, Nicholas of Basle, Henry Suso 1887
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Mayor Daoud stands behind what he calls the truths in his book.
CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for Breaking News, Weather, and Sports 2009
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The mother of all inconvenient truths is this: Global capitalism's ability to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in China, India and other developing countries comes partly at the expense of tens of millions of workers in wealthy nations.
Wonkbook: Foreclosures stopped; Geithner pressures China; Fed may target; Goolsbee on growth Ezra Klein 2010
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It is a willingness to learn profound truths from a despised neighbor — and then pass the story on to your followers.
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