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Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or eternal verities, they are part of how we help kids make sense of the world.
Emma Donoghue

Meaning of "verities" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF VERITIES

verities  [ˈverɪtɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VERITIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Verities is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VERITIES


amenities
əˈmiːnɪtɪz
austerities
ɔːˈsterɪtɪz
barbarities
bɑːˈbærɪtɪz
capabilities
ˌkeɪpəˈbɪlɪtɪz
celebrities
sɪˈlebrɪtɪz
charities
ˈtʃærɪtɪz
communities
kəˈmjuːnɪtɪz
disparities
dɪˈspærɪtɪz
facilities
fəˈsɪlɪtɪz
humanities
hjuːˈmænɪtɪz
imparities
ɪmˈpærɪtɪz
jequerities
dʒɪˈkwɪrɪtɪz
jequirities
dʒɪˈkwɪrɪtɪz
lithotrities
lɪˈθɒtrɪtɪz
minorities
maɪˈnɒrɪtɪz
polarities
pəʊˈlærɪtɪz
pretties
ˈprɪtɪz
rarities
ˈreərɪtɪz
securities
sɪˈkjʊərɪtɪz
universities
ˌjuːnɪˈvɜːsɪtɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VERITIES

verificatory
verified
verifier
verifies
verify
verily
verisimilar
verisimilarly
verisimilitude
verisimility
verisimilous
verism
verismo
verist
veristic
veritable
veritableness
veritably
veritas
verity

WORDS THAT END LIKE VERITIES

abilities
activities
authorities
capacities
cities
commodities
disabilities
identities
liabilities
localities
oddities
opportunities
parties
personalities
possibilities
priorities
qualities
quantities
realities
responsibilities
utilities

Synonyms and antonyms of verities in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «VERITIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «verities» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of verities

Translation of «verities» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VERITIES

Find out the translation of verities to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of verities from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «verities» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

真理
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

verdades
570 millions of speakers

English

verities
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सत्य
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحقائق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

истины
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

verdades
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

verities
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

vérités
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kebenaran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wahrheiten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

真理
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

verities
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bener
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

verities
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

verities
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सत्यता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

deşerler
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

verità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

prawd
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

істини
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

adevărurile
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αλήθειες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

waarhede
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

verities
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sannheter
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of verities

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VERITIES»

The term «verities» is regularly used and occupies the 59.336 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of verities
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VERITIES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «verities» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «verities» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about verities

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2 QUOTES WITH «VERITIES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word verities.
1
Emma Donoghue
Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or eternal verities, they are part of how we help kids make sense of the world.
2
Leslie Jamison
Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VERITIES»

Discover the use of verities in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to verities and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Boardroom Verities: A Celebration of Trusteeship With Some ...
A celebration of trusteeship covering every aspect of what it takes to have a happy, healthy, giving board. Boardroom Verities looks at why men and women are willing to join boards and give their time, compassion and commitment.
Jerold Panas, 1991
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Human Values and Verities
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Henry Osborn Taylor, 2011
3
The Eternal Verities for Old Souls in Young Bodies 1940
(LARGE PRINT EDITION) This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
Anonymous, 2011
4
The History of Divine Verities
p . . _ . - a e J 5 o . \ _ .I \_ t , . . . a 1 ' o r \ e r . A t 0 _ d ' . A - i I 0 . 1 \ . I ' a ' . s I s ' \ ' ' a . \ - . . s . \ . . . . a - ' , l' ' . xi 4 s ' u . i 0 e . \ , _ . \ . x a n . . . . . - - e . e 1 . > . l l e l n . . . r 1 a THIRD PAR T' HISTORY _DIVINE VERITIES - Declareth what those.
John Birchensha, 1655
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The Art of John Gardner: Instruction and Exploration
It is within the conceptual framework of a Collingwood and a Blanshard, then, that Gardner's defense of "eternal verities" must be understood. Eternal verities are " real and inherent values... which are prior to our individual existence" [OMF 24).
Per Winther, 1992
6
Leibniz' Universal Jurisprudence: Justice as the Charity of ...
For Leibniz "all reality must be founded on something existent,"105 and even the eternal verities of ethics and mathematics must be co-eternal with an actual God who "finds" those verities in his essence. This makes God necessary for, though ...
Patrick Riley, 1996
7
Paradigms in Jewish Philosophy
When Leibniz differentiates between "vérités de raison" and "vérités de fait," he distinguishes between eternal verities and historical verities ( Geschichtswahrheiten). There are immutable, "necessary" eternal verities, stemming from God's ...
Raphael Jospe, 1997
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Pietro DiDonato, the Master Builder
5 William Faulkner, in his 1950 "Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech," mentioned that a writer should write about "the old verities and truths of the heart — love, and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice."6 Christ in Concrete does ...
Matthew Diomede, 1995
9
Imperialism, Crisis and Class Struggle: The Enduring ...
The Enduring Verities and Contemporary Face of Capitalism Henry Veltmeyer. sociologists came to an end in the 1960s and 1970s, giving way to a new postdevelopment dynamic and the emergence of a post-modern, post-industrial and ...
Henry Veltmeyer, 2010
10
Ballistic Missile Defense and the Future of American ...
INTRODUCTION Pursuit by the United States of ballistic missile defense (BMD), at least in the present era, reflects the realization that certain verities or truths that have long informed international politics no longer appear to have the same ...
Roger Handberg, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VERITIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term verities is used in the context of the following news items.
1
No matter how you slice them, tomatoes are taste of summer
July 22, 2015 — Peach World offers several verities of tomatoes from their stall in the Farmers Market at the Agricenter. Pictured are Brandywine, Cherokee ... «Memphis Commercial Appeal, Jul 15»
2
Free Lunch: Trans-Pacific opacity
Nonetheless, some economists continue to trumpet the old verities. ... But it should be clear that mouthing old verities about free trade and putting a great deal of ... «Financial Times, May 15»
3
Citrus business takes root
It is home to more than 150 verities of mangoes of which 'Sindhri' (also known as the king of mangoes) remains the most popular. Other major varieties include ... «Arab News, Mar 15»
4
National Security 'Experts' Are Bullshitting Us Into Another Quagmire
Foremost among those verities was this — that a monolith called Communism, controlled by a small group of fanatic ideologues hidden behind the walls of the ... «War is Boring, Mar 15»
5
Letters: On art and religion
He writes that traditional religious organizations are suspicious of creative professions. That shouldn't be any surprise — if you're trying to teach eternal verities, ... «Los Angeles Times, Mar 15»
6
Fear of Modernity and Technology Is Fueling a Return to Medievalism
Because these psychological, social, and cultural verities are sources of comfort and identity for many people in virtually all cultures, technological change will ... «Slate Magazine, Mar 15»
7
Behind Every Bad War of the Past Century Stands a Bad 'Policy …
What the three shared in common, apart from a suspect education acquired in New Haven, was an unwavering commitment to the reigning verities of the Cold ... «The Nation., Mar 15»
8
2014: The year of no ideas
Back then, it seemed a brisk wind in a stuffy room, a reclamation of defining verities somehow lost in the smoke and haze of political expedience. He said it again ... «The Seattle Times, Nov 14»
9
The (More or Less) Eternal Verities
Some of the “The Eternal Verities,” things everyone seems to know seem do not change from one year to the next; others, like life itself, are subject to updates. «American Spectator, Aug 14»
10
A Good New Book: A Missional Orthodoxy: Theology and Ministry in …
But all Tyra's requires for “orthodoxy” is four “Christological verities”—the main one being the incarnation, that Jesus Christ was and is both truly God and truly ... «Patheos, Feb 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Verities [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/verities>. Apr 2024 ».
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