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gospel truth

gospel truth

4 4.4
A fact that is completely true and cannot be doubted
  • noun
  • /ˈɡɑːspəl truːθ/
  • Informal
translation icon : verdad absoluta
  • Now we encourage one another regularly with this gospel truth.
  • tell the gospel truth
  • take it for gospel truth

It's not, you know, it's not like it doesn't have to be treated like the gospel truth.

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Examples

  • They're going to decide this is either the absolute gospel truth or it's a complete lie.

  • The church needs gospel truth and relational templates.

    Blog text (19)

  • Just because he said so, it does not become gospel truth.

    Blog text (28)

  • It's the gospel truth, Mr. Mason.

    Road Kill (1999)

  • "Father Tim was convinced this was the gospel truth."

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Nothing but the pure gospel truth ever passed these lips.

    Breathless (2012)

  • Among scientists, Darwin's Theory of Evolution is accepted as gospel truth.

    Blog text (5)

  • " Everything I've been told by the convicted defendants checks out as the gospel truth.

    Blog text (9)

  • Please don't print anything from James Hansen as gospel truth, especially if the only peer review is from the low bar set by the PNAS.

    Blog text (8)

  • I can assure you, that is the gospel truth which should not be doubted.

Synonyms

truth
vsgospel truth
∞ 1.0

A fact that shows how things really are

is a stronger claim stating something should not be doubted as completely accurate
gospel
vsgospel truth
26 5.6

An idea people accept as completely true

is used to assert an unquestionably accurate statement rather than a formal doctrine
God's honest truth
vsgospel truth
  • Informal
5 6.1

A phrase people say to show what they say is really true

is the traditional idiom giving the same absolute certainty with fewer words

Antonyms

lie
∞ 2.7

A false statement told to trick someone

falsehood
46 4.3

A statement that is not true

How True

gospel truth
  • Informal
4 4.4
fact
∞ 1.0
report
∞ 1.3
to rumor
  • US
74 3.9
lie
∞ 2.7

Surface Forms

gospel truth singular
gospel truths plural

Morphology

gospel + truth

The phrase combines 'gospel' (an authoritative doctrine regarded as strictly true) with 'truth', so the sense 'completely true / not to be doubted' is directly predictable from the constituents. Although the expression has a religious origin, its emphatic, compositional meaning is clear and a B1 learner who knows both words should be able to infer it.

Etymology

Gospel truth comes from the word gospel, the old name for the books about Jesus that people treated as the most true words. Because those books were seen as extra reliable, saying something is the gospel truth means it is 'completely true' and not to be doubted.