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“veritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“veritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
veritas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
veritas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
to turn a deaf ear to, to open one's ears to..: aures claudere, patefacere (e.g. veritati, assentatoribus)
to be truthful in all one's statements: omnia ad veritatemdicere
truthful; veracious: veritatis amans, diligens, studiosus
to swerve from the truth: a veritate deflectere, desciscere
(1) to make a lifelike natural representation of a thing (used of the artist); (2) to be lifelike (of a work of art): veritatemimitari (Div. 1. 13. 23)
(ambiguous) veracity: veritas
(ambiguous) in everything nature defies imitation: in omni re vincit imitationem veritas