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单词 truehood
释义

truehood

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɹuːˌhʊd/

Noun

truehood (countable and uncountable, plural truehoods)

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