N. veracity, truthfulness,
frankness,
&c. adj, truth,
sincerity,
candor, unreserve|,
honesty,
fidelity, plain dealing, bona fides, love of truth,
probity,
ingenuousness, the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth, honest truth, sober truth, unvarnished tale, light of truth
V. speak the truth, tell the truth, speak by the card, paint in its true colors, show oneself in one's true colors, make a clean breast, speak one's mind, not lie, not deceive
Adj. truthful, true,
veracious,
veridical,
scrupulous,
sincere,
candid,
frank, open,
straightforward, unreserved, open hearted, true hearted,
simple-hearted,
honest,
trustworthy, undissembling &c (dissemble ),
guileless, pure, truth-loving,
unperjured, true blue, as good as one's word, unaffected,
unfeigned,
bona fide, outspoken,
ingenuous,
undisguised,
uncontrived Adv. truly, in plain words, in truth, with truth, of a truth, in good truth, as the dial to the sun, as the needle to the pole, honor bright,
troth, in good sooth, in good earnest,
unfeignedly, with no nonsense, in sooth, sooth to say,
bona fide, in foro conscientiae, without equivocation, cartes sur table, from the bottom of one's heart, by my troth
Phr. di il vero a affronterai il diavolo, dichtung und wahrheit, esto quod esse videris, magna est veritas et praevalet, "that golden key that opes the palace of eternity", veritas odium parit, veritatis simplex oratio est, verite sans peur
