sincerity, candor, unreserve†, honesty, fidelity; plain dealing, bona
fides [Lat.]; love of truth; probity &c 939; ingenuousness &c
(artlessness) 703.
the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth; honest truth,
sober truth &c (fact) 494; 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 &c
(disclose) 529; speak one's mind &c (be blunt) 703; not lie &c 544, not
deceive &c 545.
Adj. truthful, true; veracious, veridical; scrupulous &c (honorable)
939; sincere, candid, frank, open, straightforward, unreserved; open
hearted, true hearted, simple-hearted; honest, trustworthy;
undissembling &c (dissemble) &c 544 [Obs.]; guileless, pure; truth-
loving; unperjured†; true blue, as good as one's word; unaffected,
unfeigned, bona fide; outspoken, ingenuous &c (artless) 703;
undisguised &c (real) 494.
uncontrived.
Adv. truly &c (really) 494; in plain words &c 703; 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 [Lat.]; without equivocation; cartes sur table, from
the bottom of one's heart; by my troth &c (affirmation) 535.
Phr. di il vero a affronterai il diavolo [It]; Dichtung und Wahrheit
[G.]; esto quod esse videris [Lat.]; magna est veritas et praevalet
[Lat.]; that golden key that opes the palace of eternity [Milton];
veritas odium parit [Lat.]; veritatis simplex oratio est [Lat.]; verite
sans peur [Fr.].