Veracity ( page 367 ).
Questions.
1. Do truth and verity apply to thought and speech or to persons? 2. To what does veracity apply? truthfulness? 3. Into what two classes may the words in this group of synonyms be divided, and what words will be found in each class?
Examples.
On a certain confidence in the —— of mankind is founded so much of the knowledge on which we constantly depend, that, without it, the whole system of human things would go into confusion.
If all the world and love were young,
And —— in every shepherd's tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy love.