What's the difference between veracious and verity?

Veracious


Definition:

  • (a.) Observant of truth; habitually speaking truth; truthful; as, veracious historian.
  • (a.) Characterized by truth; not false; as, a veracious account or narrative.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These findings can be more veraciously interpreted as we gain a better understanding of the cellular dynamics of the cannabinoid receptor.
  • (2) The concept of truth means not only correct information about findings of examinations but rather veracious relationship based on mutual trust between patient and doctor.

Verity


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being true, or real; consonance of a statement, proposition, or other thing, with fact; truth; reality.
  • (n.) That which is true; a true assertion or tenet; a truth; a reality.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Verity said: "I would imagine that it's not impossible that over time the Wolds will become as well known as the Dales and other parts of Yorkshire … because of the Hockney effect.
  • (2) Climate Politics and the Climate Movement in Australia by Verity Burgmann and Hans Baer Also from 2012, this book reports on a less well-known part of the movement.
  • (3) Separately, Verity James, a newsreader for ABC, told reporters she and a female producer were groped by Harris during a radio interview in 2000.
  • (4) 9.06am BST There are some eternal verities in politics and one of them is that British governments (especially Conservative-led ones) are always fighting a war on red tape.
  • (5) 2013 Verity Harding, a political adviser to Nick Clegg while he was deputy prime minister, takes a policy role at Google in London.
  • (6) Instead of a movie actress I once liked mildly for a season or two, I now only see an abstraction of the financial verities of modern movie superstardom.
  • (7) Martin Donnelly, permanent secretary of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), did not just wake up one morning and, on a whim, write a lengthy and carefully argued defence of the old Whitehall verities.
  • (8) Photograph: BBC Who knows, younger folk in particular might like hearing what’s really new and vital – especially if offered by dynamic and informed presenters such as Verity Sharp and Ian McMillan who don’t fall back on weary cliches or received opinions to communicate.
  • (9) Not to be outdone, Gary Verity, chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, managed a "bonsoir" and a few "merci beaucoups" and even went for a Gallic kiss on Prudhomme's cheek at the end of the presentation.
  • (10) The bedroom tones of Verity Sharp and Fiona Talkington have enticed a cult audience to the late-night Radio 3 show, which jumps from Indian classical to American post-rock to British early music with an audacious rapidity that regularly outrages musical purists.
  • (11) Coalition’s climate policy 'best and most efficient' in the world, says Greg Hunt Read more This mirror reflecting back your own past verities could become a bit of a theme in your prime ministership, with all that you’ve said and all the things that now constrain you.
  • (12) It’s just part of the culture of the verity of certain things, to hold on to.
  • (13) On occasion, confirmation by the analyst of the verity of an experience in the patient's early life facilitates the analytic process.
  • (14) If so, he had done a masterful end-run around all the old verities of our own western economic development theory, systems and experience.
  • (15) Traditionalists in the Thatcher period clung to the old verities of national identity while struggling with the new, varied face of modern Britain.
  • (16) This belief has not been subjected to testing in clinical trials or laboratory experiments, and thus becomes a matter of belief rather than of scientific verity.
  • (17) Verity Lambert [the television producer] had no children of her own and was perhaps not conscious of the problems [facing working mothers], but she just wanted to have women in the workplace and make it possible for them."
  • (18) Dr Aaminah Verity A doctor of four years, Aaminah is now specialising in tropical medicine and international health in London.
  • (19) When they say “forget business versus society”, they mean “stop yammering on about human beings and get back to economic verities”.
  • (20) He's saying, 'Get back to the good old verities, you can't go out because you can't go out because you can't go out.'