Word Meanings - TRUTH-LOVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who loves the truth. Truth-lover was our English Duke. Tennyson.

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• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• LOVERWISE
  As lovers do. As they sat down here loverwise. W. D. Howells.
• TRUTHY
  Truthful; likely; probable. "A more truthy import." W. G. Palgrave.
• TRUTHLESS
  Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless. -- Truth"less*ness, n.
• TRUTH-LOVER
  One who loves the truth. Truth-lover was our English Duke. Tennyson.
• LOVER
  1. One who loves; one who is in love; -- usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex. Gower. Love is blind, and lovers can not see The pretty follies that themselves commit. Shak. 2. A friend; one strongly attached to another;
• TRUTHFUL
  Full of truth; veracious; reliable. -- Truth"ful*ly, adv. -- Truth"ful*ness, n.
• TRUTHNESS
  Truth. Marston.
• TRUTH
  1. The quality or being true; as: -- Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be. Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like. Plows,
• TENNYSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.
• ENGLISHRY
  1. The state or privilege of being an Englishman. Cowell. 2. A body of English or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in Ireland. A general massacre of the Englishry. Macaulay.
• TRUTH-TELLER
  One who tells the truth. Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named. Tennyson.
• ENGLISHABLE
  Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English.
• ENGLISHMAN
  A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.
• LOVER; LOVERY
  See HALL
• ENGLISHISM
  1. A quality or characteristic peculiar to the English. M. Arnold. 2. A form of expression peculiar to the English language as spoken in England; an Anglicism.
• LOVESOME
  Lovely.
• ENGLISH
  Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race. English bond (more info) tribe of Germans from the southeast of Sleswick, in Denmark, who
• DRAWGLOVES
  An old game, played by holding up the fingers. Herrick.
• SEA PLOVER
  the black-bellied plover.
• FREE-LOVER
  One who believes in or practices free-love.
• PLOVER
  Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging to the family Charadridæ, and especially those belonging to the subfamily Charadrinsæ. They are prized as game birds. (more info) LL. pluviarius, fr. L. pluvia rain, from pluere to rain;
• HART'S CLOVER
  Melilot or sweet clover. See Melilot.
• UNTRUTHFUL
  Not truthful; unveracious; contrary to the truth or the fact. -- Un*truth"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*truth"ful*ness, n.
• STRUTHIO
  A genus of birds including the African ostriches.
• STRUTHIAN
  Struthious.
• UNTRUTH
  1. The quality of being untrue; contrariety to truth; want of veracity; also, treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty. Chaucer. 2. That which is untrue; a false assertion; a falsehood; a lie; also, an act of treachery or disloyalty. Shak. Syn. --
• STRUTHIONES
  A division, or order, of birds, including only the African ostriches. In a wider sense, an extensive group of birds including the ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, and allied birds incapable of flight. In this sense it is equivalent to Ratitæ,