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Truth — American Heritage Dictionary
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- YEAR
- 2022
- PUBLISHER
- HarperCollins
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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Was truth first only correspondence with fact?
No. Merriam-Webster reports the earliest located English use under fidelity or constancy, while modern truth also covers factual correspondence.
Etymology: loyalty from Old English trēowthIndependently anchors the fidelity history.
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truth → trewthe
Present-Day English → Middle English · continuation
- SOUND
- Modern truth continues Middle English trewthe through English spelling and sound history.
- MEANING
- Fidelity and constancy coexist historically with sincerity and factual correspondence.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
Headword etymologyIndependently supplies the loyalty history.
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true
Englishadjective base in the same historical family
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