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START / NODE 698Present-Day Englishbefore 12th century–today
truth
Conformity with fact or reality; inherited through Old English trēowþ, whose recorded semantic field includes fidelity, loyalty, and constancy.
“The earliest source-reported English sense of truth is fidelity or constancy, not an abstract theory of correspondence.”OPEN COMPLETE WORD DOSSIER ↗
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Present-Day Englishtruth
conformity to fact or reality; sincerity; fidelity
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Middle English · Middle Englishtrewtheloyalty, fidelity, truth
- SOUND CHANGE
- Modern truth continues Middle English trewthe through English spelling and sound history.
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- Fidelity and constancy coexist historically with sincerity and factual correspondence.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established
- CHRONOLOGY
- Merriam-Webster reports use before the twelfth century.
2 CITATIONSTruth — Definition, Word History, and First Known UseWord History, definitions, and First Known Use Truth — American Heritage DictionaryHeadword etymology AUDIT CANONICAL EDGE 676 ↗
Supplies Middle English trewthe, current senses, and the early fidelity horizon.
ORIGINAL ↗Independently supplies the loyalty history.
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