PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
No. Merriam-Webster reports the earliest located English use under fidelity or constancy, while modern truth also covers factual correspondence.
/truːθ/ · noun
Conformity with fact or reality; inherited through Old English trēowþ, whose recorded semantic field includes fidelity, loyalty, and constancy.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Directly separates the early reported horizon from the present factual senses.
First Known Use: fidelity or constancy sense; definitionsIndependently anchors the fidelity history.
Etymology: loyalty from Old English trēowthThe semantic record treats fidelity as history without using etymology to erase the current meaning.