Antonyms for truths

Grammar : Noun

Spell : trooth

Phonetic Transcription : truθ

Definition of truths

Origin : Old English triewð (West Saxon), treowð (Mercian) "faithfulness, quality of being true," from triewe, treowe "faithful" (see true), with Proto-Germanic abstract noun suffix *-itho (see -th (2)).
Meaning "accuracy, correctness" is from 1560s. Unlike lie (v.), there is no primary verb in English or most other IE languages for "speak the truth." Noun sense of "something that is true" is first recorded mid-14c.
Let [Truth] and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter. [Milton, "Areopagitica," 1644]
Truth squad in U.S. political sense first attested 1952. Truthiness "act or quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than those known to be true," catch word popularized in this sense by U.S. comedian Stephen Colbert, declared by American Dialect Society to be "2005 Word of the Year."

noun honesty, loyalty
noun reality, validity

Example sentences :

The truths in themselves were enough to bear telling and retelling.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

He was a good man, who saw some truths clearly, and used them blunderingly.
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

She listened, reflected, and "inwardly digested," the truths of the Gospel.
Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. II » by Francis Augustus Cox

In regard to these two truths there is no change in the present volume.
Extract from : « The Ministry of Intercession » by Andrew Murray

Hence all truths of color sink at once into the second rank.
Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin

The difficulty increased by the variety of truths in nature.
Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin

All truths valuable as they are characteristic.generality which renders it unimportant.
Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin

Finally, then, it is to be remembered that all truths as far 9.
Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin

But the truths of nature are one eternal change—one infinite variety.
Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin

Each century must restate its truths in terms of its own time.
Extract from : « The Meaning of Evolution » by Samuel Christian Schmucker

Synonyms for truths

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