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English Dictionary: veracious by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
veracious
adj
  1. habitually speaking the truth; "a veracious witness"
  2. precisely accurate; "a veracious account"
    Synonym(s): veracious, right
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Veracious \Ve*ra"cious\, a. [L. verax, -acis, fr. verus true.
      See {Very}.]
      1. Observant of truth; habitually speaking truth; truthful;
            as, veracious historian.
  
                     The Spirit is most perfectly and absolutely
                     veracious.                                          --Barrow.
  
      2. Characterized by truth; not false; as, a veracious account
            or narrative.
  
                     The young, ardent soul that enters on this world
                     with heroic purpose, with veracious insight, will
                     find it a mad one.                              --Carlyle.
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