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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