veritas
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The veritas gives “Titanic” a nobility it doesn’t quite earn, but nonetheless it’s part of the movie’s power.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2022
"But we brought veritas to it that ordinarily a set would not have."
From Salon • Apr. 13, 2022
In vino veritas: “The Wire’s” Dominic West joins resident oenophiles James Purefoy, Matthew Goode and “The Americans’” Matthew Rhys for Season 3 of the foodie travelogue “The Wine Show.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2021
It was also an anagram of veritas: Latin for “truth,” but scrambled.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2019
Just as if Kant had never existed, the principle of sufficient reason is to Fichte precisely what it was to all the schoolmen, a veritas aeterna.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur
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