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Grammar : Noun
Spell : troo-iz-uhm
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtru ɪz əm



Définition of truism

Origin :
  • 1708, from true + -ism; first attested in Swift.
  • noun self-evident truth
Example sentences :
  • From the swing at golf to the manner of lighting a match in the wind, this truism applies.
  • Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
  • After seeming to hover for a time on the verge of a great truth, we have gained only a truism.
  • Extract from : « Philebus » by Plato
  • "As above so below, and as below so above," is a truism which we may safely take as our first maxim.
  • Extract from : « Sex=The Unknown Quantity » by Ali Nomad
  • All this is truism; but truisms are often the first things we forget.
  • Extract from : « New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 » by Various
  • I will begin by assuming that it is a truism, and will then try to prove that it is true.
  • Extract from : « What Is and What Might Be » by Edmond Holmes
  • Again, to assert the prominence of Jews as actors is uttering a truism.
  • Extract from : « Jewish Literature and Other Essays » by Gustav Karpeles
  • That is a truism, but no other saying can apply to what I am about to tell you.
  • Extract from : « A Coin of Edward VII » by Fergus Hume
  • If that's a truism, it's still the truth, as true as the fact that this ship cannot fail.
  • Extract from : « Breaking Point » by James E. Gunn
  • Do you stop this lecture to say that all this is a truism—a “chestnut”?
  • Extract from : « The Arena » by Various
  • It is a truism, that, when one loves truly, one is never satisfied.
  • Extract from : « She and I, Volume 2 » by John Conroy Hutcheson

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