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An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism.

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  1. n. An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism.
  2. n. an obvious truth
  3. An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism. Trifling truisms clothed in great, swelling words. J. P. Smith.
  4. An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which ispliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposedto falsism.Trifling truisms clothed in great, swelling words. J. P. Smith.