VERACITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does veracity mean? 

• VERACITY (noun)
  The noun VERACITY has 1 sense:

1. unwillingness to tell lies

  Familiarity information: VERACITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VERACITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unwillingness to tell lies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("veracity" is a kind of...):

truthfulness (the quality of being truthful)

Antonym:

mendacity (the tendency to be untruthful)

Derivation:

veracious (habitually speaking the truth)

 Context examples 

Do these miserable animals presume to think, that I am so degenerated as to defend my veracity?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

If any person in this hall dares to doubt my veracity, I shall be glad to have a few words with him after the lecture. (Liar!)

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Of what he has particularly accused me I am ignorant; but of the truth of what I shall relate, I can summon more than one witness of undoubted veracity.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

"No," replied Elinor, most feelingly sensible of every fresh circumstance in favour of Lucy's veracity; "I remember he told us, that he had been staying a fortnight with some friends near Plymouth."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The captain, a wise man, after many endeavours to catch me tripping in some part of my story, at last began to have a better opinion of my veracity.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Yes, sir. You are a man whose veracity is upon trial, and this committee is here to try it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jane listened with astonishment and concern; she knew not how to believe that Mr. Darcy could be so unworthy of Mr. Bingley's regard; and yet, it was not in her nature to question the veracity of a young man of such amiable appearance as Wickham.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

However small Elinor's general dependence on Lucy's veracity might be, it was impossible for her on serious reflection to suspect it in the present case, where no temptation could be answerable to the folly of inventing a falsehood of such a description.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

And, as truth always forces its way into rational minds, so this honest worthy gentleman, who had some tincture of learning, and very good sense, was immediately convinced of my candour and veracity.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

This gentleman treated me with kindness, and desired I would let him know what place I came from last, and whither I was bound; which I did in a few words, but he thought I was raving, and that the dangers I underwent had disturbed my head; whereupon I took my black cattle and sheep out of my pocket, which, after great astonishment, clearly convinced him of my veracity.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)