t word is sometimes confounded
with _venial_?

EXAMPLES.

Theft on the part of a starving man is one of the most ---- of
offenses.

Under all the circumstances, the error was ----.

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VERACITY (page 367).

QUESTIONS.

1. Do _truth_ and _verity_ apply to thought and speech or to persons? 2.
To what does _veracity_ apply? _truthfulness_? 3. Into what two classes
may the words in this group of synonyms be divided, and what words will
be found in each class?

EXAMPLES.

On a certain confidence in the ---- of mankind is founded so much of
the knowledge on which we constantly depend, that, without it, the
whole system of human things would go into confusion.

If all the world and love were young,
And ---- in every shepherd's tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy love.

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VIRTUE (page 370).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the prominent idea in _virtue_? 2. How does _goodness_ differ
from _virtue_? 3. Of what relations are _honesty_ and _probity_ used? 4.
How is _honesty_ used in a sense higher than the commercial? 5. What, in
the full sense, is _integrity_? 6. What is _honor_? 7. What is _purity_?
_duty_? 8. What do _rectitude_ and _righteousness_ denote? 9. To what
does _uprightness_ especially refer? 10. What is _virtuousness_?

EXAMPLES.

---- is the fruit of exertion; it supposes conquest of temptation.

In seeing that a thing is right, we see at the same time that it is
our ---- to do it.

It is true that ---- is the best policy; but if this be the motive
of honest dealing, there is no real ----.

Where is that chastity of ---- that felt a stain like a wound?

INDEX.

_abandon_, 1
" _renounce_, 309
" _surrender_, 349

abandoned, _addicted_, 19

_abase_, 2

_abash_, 3

_abate_, 3
" _abolish_, 6
" _alleviate_, 33

_abbreviation_, 4
" _abridgment_, 7

abdicate, _abandon_, 1

aberration, _insanity_, 221

_abet_, 4
" _help_, 195

abetter, _accessory_, 13

abettor, _accessory_, 13

_abhor_, 5

abhorrence, _abomination_, 7
" _antipathy_, 48
" _hatred_, 193

_abide_, 5
" _endure_, 150

abiding, _permanent_, 269

ability, _power_, 279

abject, _pitiful_, 273

abjure, _abandon_, 1
" _renounce_, 309

able, _adequate_, 21
" _cle