Word: 'truth' • Extended Annotations

truth

Extended Annotations

Ancestral Lore

Ancestral Lore of truth

Middle English truþ
from Old English triewð or treowð "faith, faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty; veracity, quality of being true; pledge, covenant"

from Proto-Germanic treuwaz "characterized by good faith"

truth noun

that what is, without any filter, distortion or exaggeration; lucidity

all the facts about something, rather than things that are imagined or invented
something that is believed to be true
often capitalized: a transcendent fundamental or spiritual reality
in particle physics: truth quark, later called top quark
a type of quark with a mass of c. 176 to 199 GeV/c2, a positive charge 2⁄3 that of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness

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Specific examples and quotes of truth

"Sooth is an old word for truth, or reality, fact. If you look up its etymology, you will find that a soothsayer is one who speaks the truth. I thought it pertinent to mention, though neither truth-tellers nor soothsayers have anything to do with the news."

"Weird Genius"
The Story of Your Ankh
by Sabina Nore

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Legend

~☉~	lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context
⚜	classic definition
☣	artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense

WEIRD GENIUS
The Story of Your Ankh