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Wordnet 3.0

ADVERB (1)

1. in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers);
- Example: "in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire"
- Example: "really, you shouldn't have done it"
- Example: "a truly awful book"
[syn: in truth, really, truly]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Truth \Truth\, n.; pl. Truths. [OE. treuthe, trouthe, treowpe, AS. tre['o]w?. See True; cf. Troth, Betroth.] 1. The quality or being true; as: (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be. [1913 Webster] (b) Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like. [1913 Webster] Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster] (c) Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness. [1913 Webster] Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster] (d) The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity. [1913 Webster] If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. That which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality. [1913 Webster] Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor. --Zech. viii. 16. [1913 Webster] I long to know the truth here of at large. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster] 3. A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals. [1913 Webster] Even so our boasting . . . is found a truth. --2 Cor. vii. 14. [1913 Webster] 4. Righteousness; true religion. [1913 Webster] Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. --John i. 17. [1913 Webster] Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth. --John xvii. 17. [1913 Webster] In truth, in reality; in fact. Of a truth, in reality; certainly. To do truth, to practice what God commands. [1913 Webster] He that doeth truth cometh to the light. --John iii. 21. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

in truth adv 1: in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers); "in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire"; "really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly awful book" [syn: in truth, really, truly]