'In truth' definitions:

Definition of 'in truth'

(from WordNet)
adverb
In fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers); "in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire"; "really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly awful book" [syn: in truth, really, truly]

Definition of 'In truth'

From: GCIDE
  • Truth \Truth\, n.; pl. Truths. [OE. treuthe, trouthe, treowpe, AS. tre['o]w?. See True; cf. Troth, Betroth.]
  • 1. The quality or being true; as: (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be. [1913 Webster] (b) Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like. [1913 Webster]
  • Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster] (c) Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness. [1913 Webster]
  • Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster] (d) The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity. [1913 Webster]
  • If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. That which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality. [1913 Webster]
  • Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor. --Zech. viii. 16. [1913 Webster]
  • I long to know the truth here of at large. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals. [1913 Webster]
  • Even so our boasting . . . is found a truth. --2 Cor. vii. 14. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Righteousness; true religion. [1913 Webster]
  • Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. --John i. 17. [1913 Webster]
  • Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth. --John xvii. 17. [1913 Webster]
  • In truth, in reality; in fact.
  • Of a truth, in reality; certainly.
  • To do truth, to practice what God commands. [1913 Webster]
  • He that doeth truth cometh to the light. --John iii. 21. [1913 Webster]

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