Verity
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Verity |
| image | Alfred Schwarzschild's "Truth".jpg |
| caption | Truth by Alfred Schwarzschild. |
| gender | feminine rarely masculine |
| meaning | truth |
| region | England |
| origin | Old French |
| related names | Veretie, Verety, Verita, Veritie |
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| name = Verity | image = Alfred Schwarzschild's "Truth".jpg | imagesize = | caption = Truth by Alfred Schwarzschild. | pronunciation = | gender = feminine rarely masculine | meaning = truth | region = England | origin = Old French | nickname = | related names = Veretie, Verety, Verita, Veritie
Verity is also a surname, which may have more ancient unrelated origins, possibly being a corruption of a similar word.
First name
- Verity Crawley (born 1994), English professional bowler
- Verity Barton (born 1985), Australian (Queensland) politician
- Verity Firth (born 1973), Australian politician
- Verity James, Australian TV and radio presenter
- Verity Lambert (1935–2007), English television producer
- Verity Laughton (born 1952), Australian playwright
- Verity Marshall (born 1986), English actress
- Verity Rushworth (born 1985), English actress
- Verity Sharp (born 1970), English broadcast radio personality
- Verity Snook-Larby (born 1970), English race walker
Fictional characters
- Verity, the assistant of Fred and George Weasley in Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes in *Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince *
- Verity Hunt, the murder victim in the novel Nemesis by Agatha Christie
- Verity Mullens, the spaniel in the book Verity Mullens and the Indian by Natalia M. Belding (1960)
- Verity Poldark Blamey, recurring character in the 2015 television series Poldark
- Verity Price, character in the InCryptid novel series
- Verity Simone Carlo, character in the IDW Publishing Transformers comic series
Surname
- Anthony Verity (born 1939), English educationalist and classical scholar
- Charles Verity (1814–1899), English stone mason, building contractor and mayor of Doncaster
- Charlotte Verity (born 1954), British painter
- Claude Hamilton Verity (1880–1949), English hardware merchant, engineer and inventor
- Elsie Eleanor Verity (1894–1971), "The First Lady of the motor trade"
- Fred Verity (1847–1897), English engineer, inventor, iron founder, brass-founder, manufacturer and retailer of ironmongery
- Hedley Verity (1905–1943), English cricketer
- Hugh Verity (1918-2001), British RAF and SOE pilot
- Jake Verity (born 1997), American football player
- John Verity (born 1949), English guitarist
- Ruggero Verity (1883–1959), Italian physician and entomologist
- Thomas Verity, an English architect (1837 – 1891)
- William Verity Jr. (1917–2007), American businessman and government official
;Other:
- Verity (sculpture), a bronze statue made by Damien Hirst
- Verity (ship), e.g. List of shipwrecks in 2023#October
- Verity, 2018 novel by Colleen Hoover
References
References
- (2006). "Oxford Dictionary of First Names". Oxford University Press.
- Surnames had been adopted by families in England centuries before the Puritan era
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