We explain what something reliable is, the origin of the word and its various meanings. Also, examples in sentences.
What is something reliable?
The word verifiable (literally: "that makes faith", that is, "that gives faith of something") is a term of use worship either technical in the Spanish. Its meaning is "reliable", "true" or "indisputable". For example, a “credible witness” is a person whose testimony regarding something (a crime, for example) is absolutely reliable and can be taken as true and valid.
The meaning of this word comes from times before modernity, in which faith was an absolute religious value that could be applied to the administration of Justice. For this reason, oaths (with one hand on the Bible, for example) had the value of TRUE, since something was being affirmed not only before men, but also before God himself, whose righteousness according to the religion it is inescapable and eternal.
Thus, what is considered reliable or performed reliably has the meaning of what is valid, what is true, what cannot be subject to any doubt, since it is done with faith. In that sense, it is synonymous with "unquestionable", "indubitable", "resounding", "absolute", depending on the context.
Some examples of sentences that use this word would be the following:
- The awarding of the Nobel Prize was an irrefutable demonstration of the importance of the author's work.
- The judges considered the photographs as irrefutable proof of the defendant's innocence.
- The police reliably claimed to have witnessed the bank robbery.
- The very high abstention rate in the elections reliably illustrates the complex political situation in our country.
- There is reliable scientific evidence of human responsibility in climate change.