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Benozzo remained true to the chaste ideals of his master, yet was able to combine in his work the sincerity the skill, and the veraciousness of a charming story-teller.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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In a later year, when he felt himself called upon to defend his pension, he described what his position was in the momentous crisis from 1780 to 1782, and Burke's habitual veraciousness forbids us to treat the description as in any way exaggerated.
Burke Morley, John 1907
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Next she inquired whether I did not miss the tiger-shooting and pig-sticking; and I replied (with veraciousness, since I am not the _au fait_ in such sports) that I could not deny a liability to miss both tigers and pigs, and, indeed, all animals that were _feræ naturæ_, and she condemned the hazardousness of these jungle sports, and wished me to promise that I would abstain from them on my return to India.
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895
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Müller's defence of the Hindu's veraciousness, see his
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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There is, perhaps, a little too much formal insistence on veraciousness, and one is rather inclined to suspect, despite Müllers brave defence of the Hindu in this regard, that lying came very naturally to a people whose law-givers were so continuously harping on the beauty of truth.
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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Further, -- and we leave the question of extreme accuracy and _veraciousness_ to be settled by ÆGROTUS, -- the
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Russian literature is simplicity, naturalness, veraciousness.
Best Russian Short Stories Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin 1818
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In addition, "verax" is the root of the word "veraciousness," a somewhat rarer synonym and cousin of "veracity."
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That is not meant to doubt the veraciousness of the statistics themselves or to downplay the seriousness of the matter or even to poke fun at Celarek’s article, it’s simply meant to point out that apparently, we humans?
purplecigar Diary Entry purplecigar 2005
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University of Bremen at the commencement of the seventeenth century), and induced to doubt with him, the veraciousness of the
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852
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