veracious

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   precisely accurate

   A veracious account.

2. 2
   adj

   habitually speaking the truth

   A veracious witness.

3. 3
   adj

   Truthful; speaking the truth.

   Now there are two curious circumstances to be observed in this relation of my uncle's, who was, as I have said, a perfectly veracious man.

From Latin verac- + -ious, stem of vērāx (“truthful”), from vērus (“true”).

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