[f. VERIT-Y + -ISM.] = VERISM. So Veritist, Veritistic a. = VERIST, VERISTIC a. Originally and chiefly U.S.
1891. Boston Evening Transcript, 24 Aug., 4/3. Exposure of frauds only enhances interest in the veritism of psychical research. Ibid., 26 Sept., 12/4. Whether he is a ‘veritist’ or an idealist.
1894. Nation (N.Y.), 19 July, 53/2. Veritism is the name by which devils are to be cast out, and the artist himself is to be a veritist.
1894. H. Garland, in Forum (N.Y.), Aug., 690. My own conception is that realism (or veritism) is the truthful statement of an individual impression corrected by reference to the fact. Ibid. The veritist chooses for his subject not the impossible, not even the possible, but always the probable. Ibid., 693. The critic cannot distinguish between the entirely fictitious characters of the veritistic novel and the characters drawn from life.
