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truehood en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈtɹuːˌhʊd/ (UK)

Etymology

From true + -hood, modelled after falsehood. Compare Middle English treuhede, trewhede (“faithfulness; the quality of being in the right”, literally “true-hood”).

Meanings

1. (countable) a true statement; a truth.
   • “What about disseminating truehoods that also happen to be derogatory?” 2011, Robert Littell, Mother Russia:
2. (uncountable) the property of being true; truth.
   • It is part good, part evil, part falsehood, part truehood. 1959, Curtis Bok, Star Wormwood, page 56:

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