Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
truth .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Truth.
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- noun Obsolete form of
truth .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He that trusteth in him shall understand the trewth.
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Knox answered that, and many other thingis, him self did witness in a treatise that he wrate in the gallayis, conteanyng the some of his doctrin, and Confessioun of his fayth, [494] and send it to his familiaris in Scotland; with his exhortatioun, that thei should continew in the trewth, which thei had professed, nochtwithstanding any worldly adversitie that mycht ensew thareof.
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Geillis Kirk, and ferventlie exhortit the brethren to stand constant in the trewth quhilk thay had professit.
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By the plane Scriptures it was found, "That a lyvelie faith requyred a plane confessioun, when Christes trewth is oppugned; that not only ar thei gyltie that do evill, bot also thei that assent to evill."
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JOHNE KNOX from Geneva, for thare conforte, and for the conforte of thare brethrein the preachearis, and otheris that then couragiouslye faught against the ennemyes of Goddis trewth.
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It may be that God shall plague some, for that thei delyte nott in the trewth, albeit for warldlye respectis thei seame to favour it.
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That all men may knaw the just tytle hir Dochter and sche hes to the toun of Leith, we sall in few wordis declair the trewth.
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God, no pairte ever enterit in our consait; nor suffer your selfis be thairby led frome youre dew obedience; assureing yow, ye sall ever fynd with us trewth in promeisses, and ane moderlie luif towartis all; yow behaifand your selffis our [920] obedient subjectis.
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For, as it is the eternall trewth of the eternall God, so shall it ones prevaill, howsoever for a time it be impugned.
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Duck, I can not tell yf he hes the knowledge that should be in him that should judge and decerne betuix lyes and the trewth, the inventionis of men and the trew wirschipping of God.
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