Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name given to a register of shipping in France on the principle of Lloyd's. The name has also been used for the same purpose in Norway and in Austria.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The Bureau Veritas. See under bureau.

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  • noun Truth, particularly of a transcendent character

Etymologies

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From Latin vēritās

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Examples

  • Veronica is a name derived from the Latin word veritas, for ‘truth,’ and icon for ‘image.’

    The Shroud Codex Ph.D Jerome R. Corsi 2010

  • Veracity is the English word for the Latin term veritas, which means “truth.”

    Egonomics David Marcum 2007

  • The Latin word for truth is "veritas" - a goddess who the Romans believed was the mother of virtue.

    U.S. Department of Education 2009

  • "I imagine you took your name from the Latin veritas, meaning truth."

    Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners 2009

  • They say in vino veritas, meaning in wine there is truth (in my case it was actually in vodka veritas, but that's irrelevant).

    Marisa Lee: Battling Breast Cancer: A Personal Agenda 2008

  • That's because at Harvard "veritas" is a verb, not a noun.

    March and Countermarch on Harvard and ROTC 2008

  • There are people who would say, in vino veritas, meaning when you're drinking, that's when things you're really thinking come out.

    CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2006 2006

  • In the early days of 1914-15, these newspapers would have long and weighty editorials which called forth longer and weightier letters from "veritas" and "old subscriber."

    Private Peat Harold Reginald Peat 1926

  • I have long thought that the motto 'in vino veritas' contains in it far more of 'veritas' than is dreamt of in most people's philosophy, and that the age of rampant total abstinence is the age of special falseness.

    My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886

  • "In vino veritas," says the proverb which on this occasion lied most vilely; yet it was true in the only sense in which "veritas" is there used; for there was unbounded candor and frankness, under the inspiring hospitality of our host, aided by his skilful management of the conversation.

    The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic Henry Rogers 1841

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