All 3 Uses
veritable
in
Night, by Elie Wiesel
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- The new one was ferocious and his aides were veritable monsters.†
p. 44.8veritable = used for emphasis to introduce a dramatic metaphor
- In fact, this affection was not entirely altruistic; there existed here a veritable traffic of children among homosexuals, I learned later.†
p. 48.3 *
- Back then, Buna was a veritable hell.†
p. 70.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(veritable) used for emphasis: to describe one thing as almost like another (more intense) thing
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)