You're veritably incorrect. The english language contains lots of "nuance" that is often hard for some folks to grasp.
lol here are some examples of the word in use...
https://sentence.yourdictionary.com/veritable
And you're correct, the nuance here being that the word doesn't mean exactly true.
but can also... mean true
from your own link
Veritable helmets of metal, such as Herodotus ascribes to Assyrians and Chalybians (vii.
These must have been those ancient plastic helmets I assume, perhaps a polymer composite
You missed...
She was a veritable garden of indecision.
Gadflies and mosquitoes are a veritable plague around the lakes of the lowlands in the hot weather.
At first it was a veritable honeymoon; conversation never flagged and either found in the other his soul's complement.
His one re deeming feature was a love of art; his own cathedral was a veritable Pantheon.
The male, however, is a veritable pigmy beside the female, and during copulation presents the appearance of a parasite attached to her abdomen.
These sub-apostolic epistles are veritable "human documents," with the personal note running through them.
All using metaphors. Like I said, the word is never really used in the manner you are attempting to use it.
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