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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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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.

Trifling

truisms

clothed in great, swelling words.

J. P. Smith.

Noun.

[from true.] An undoubted or self-evident truth.

Trifling truisms clothed in great swelling words of vanity--