[f. L. vēr-um (neut.) or It. ver-o true + -IST. Cf. VERITIST.] One who believes in or practises the rigid representation of the truth or reality in literature or art. Also attrib.
1884. Contemp. Rev., March, 395. This observation … would lead us to a controversy with the verists, realists, naturalists, or whatever their name.
1899. Academy, 18 Feb., 213/2. These provoked the Verist reaction which followed.
Hence Veristic a.
1884. Contemp. Rev., Sept., 450. The veristic school does indeed go too far in holding up the things of sense as exclusively true and real.
1891. Blackw. Mag., CL. 869/1. The keynote of George Eliot’s art Signor Negri qualifies as essentially realistic, or, as he puts it, veristic.
