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n

  1. Honesty; credibility; truthfulness, as in, “the witness’s previous criminal record brings into question his veracity.”
  2. The accuracy of an account of an event.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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