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veridical
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synonyms: veritable, bona fide" ???
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Definition:truthful, veracious;not illusory, genuine
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Ah, would to God that I had now a bottle of the best wine that ever those drank who shall read this so veridical history!
Rabelais. Gargantua and Pantagruel
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Sometimes people have visions that scholars would call veridical - meaning they actually saw what they thought they saw.Bart Ehrman.
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He weighed the possible evidences for and against ritual murder: the incitations of the hierarchy, the superstition of the populace, the propagation of rumour in continued fraction of veridicity, the envy of opulence, the influence of retaliation, the sporadic reappearance of atavistic delinquency, the mitigating circumstances of fanaticism, hypnotic suggestion and somnambulism.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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