verity

How to use verity in a sentence

• verity responds — but really, Liselle admits to herself later, she calls because “no matter how distant, abusive, judgmental, unloving and useless one’s mother was, one called her when things fell apart.”

  ‘The Days of Afrekete’ is a bitingly funny novel with echoes to ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ | Wendy Smith | October 28, 2021 | Washington Post

• Living in a universe that is already out of their control, they can become especially shaken when the verities they count on to give the world order–the rituals in their lives, the very day-to-dayness of living–get blown to bits.

  The Coronavirus Seems to Spare Most Kids From Illness, but Its Effect on Their Mental Health Is Deepening | Jeffrey Kluger | July 23, 2020 | Time

• Paleoconservative Jesse Helms objected to verity because the nominee favored increased trade with the Soviet Union.

  The Republicans’ Ugly and Shameful Chuck Hagel Filibuster | John Avlon | February 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST

• Another alleged proof of the divine verity of the Christian religion is the Prophecies.

  God and my Neighbour | Robert Blatchford

• He stood now with a calculating look, almost as if he were checking the verity of the report.

  Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 | Various