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Definition of The true
1. Noun. Conformity to reality or actuality. "He turned to religion in his search for eternal verities"
Generic synonyms: Actuality
Attributes: True, False
Derivative terms: True
Antonyms: Falsity
Lexicographical Neighbors of The True
Literary usage of The true
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology by Thomas Paine, Moncure Daniel Conway (1896)
"CHAPTER XL OF THE THEOLOGY OF THE CHRISTIANS; AND the true THEOLOGY. As to the
Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of atheism ; a sort ..."
2. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"An Elegy on the Author of the True-born ... the true Relation of the Apparition
of one Mrs. Veal, the next day after her Death, ..."
3. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Peter Augustin Daniel (1874)
"The goodly hystory of the true and constant loue between ... The Contention, and
Henry VI, Part 2, in Fi; the true Tragedy, and Henry VI, Part, in Fi. ..."
4. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"soul with one another (442 C), a harmony 'fairer far than that of musical notes,'
is the true Hellenic mode of conceiving the perfection ..."
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