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veracious

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ve·ra·cious  (v-rshs)
adj.
1. Honest; truthful.
2. Accurate; precise.

[From Latin vrx, vrc-, truthful, from vrus, true; see wr-o- in Indo-European roots.]

ve·racious·ly adv.
ve·racious·ness n.

veracious [vɛˈreɪʃəs]
adj
1. habitually truthful or honest
2. accurate; precise
[from Latin vērax, from vērus true]
veraciously  adv
veraciousness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.veracious - habitually speaking the truth; "a veracious witness"
truthful, true - expressing or given to expressing the truth; "a true statement"; "gave truthful testimony"; "a truthful person"
2.veracious - precisely accurate; "a veracious account"
accurate - conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy; "an accurate reproduction"; "the accounting was accurate"; "accurate measurements"; "an accurate scale"
Translations
veracious [vəˈreɪʃəs] ADJ (frm) → veraz
veracious
adj personehrlich, aufrichtig; reportwahrheitsgemäß


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I have now told the singular, but veracious story of the Opera ghost.
I doubt not the captain had this veracious picture taken for the benefit of his marines.
Having got a name for his horse so much to his taste, he was anxious to get one for himself, and he was eight days more pondering over this point, till at last he made up his mind to call himself "Don Quixote," whence, as has been already said, the authors of this veracious history have inferred that his name must have been beyond a doubt Quixada, and not Quesada as others would have it.
 
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