veritable

CEFRC1

/ˈvɛ.ɹɪ.tə.bl/

adjective

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Paganini dazzled his audience with (among other things) a veritable hailstorm of left-handed pizzicatos.
Paper is, therefore, a veritable miracle created by man.

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A fair is a veritable smorgasbord.
He is a veritable genius.
From 1748, a veritable troop of elocution experts declared war on Scots diction, providing inspirational lectures, books and yet more lists for diligent anglophiles to memorise.

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The ideal man of the Middle Ages was free of all fear because he was sure of salvation, certain of eternal bliss. He was the saint, and the saint, not the knight nor the troubadour, is the veritable ideal of the Middle Ages.
1942, Alfred Gallinek, “Psychogenic Disorders and the Civilization of the Middle Ages”, in The American Journal of Psychiatry, volume 99, number 1, page 47
From 1748, a veritable troop of elocution experts declared war on Scots diction, providing inspirational lectures, books and yet more lists for diligent anglophiles to memorise.
2023, Clive Young, “chapter three: From Union to Devolution”, in Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Luath Press Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 75

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From Middle French veritable, from Old French veritable, from Latin veritabilis.