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genuineness|ˈdʒɛnjuːɪnnɪs|
Also 8 genuiness.
[f. genuine a.1 + -ness.]
1. The quality or fact of being genuine or what it is represented to be, reality, trueness.
1647H. More Song of Soul Notes 414 The fitnesse and genuinenesse of the Hypothesis it self. 1664Boyle Exp. Colours iii. xxxvi. 282 It not being Essential to the Genuineness of a Colour to be Durable. 1715tr. Pancirollus' Rerum Mem. I. i. xii. 31 The greatest Indication of the Genuiness of it [Juice], is the curdling of it. 1729Butler Serm. Wks. 1874 II. 128 Truth, and..integrity, carry along with them a peculiar consciousness of their own genuineness. 1817Bentham Parl. Ref. Catech. (1818) 25 To secure genuineness, to prevent spuriousness. 1881W. G. Palgrave in Macm. Mag. XLV. 22 A whole company of learned monks..thoroughly qualified to pronounce authoritatively on the genuineness of the prodigy.
2. esp. The quality of being what it professes to be in origin or authorship; = authenticity 3.
See genuine a. 3, and the note there.
1699Burnet 39 Art. vi. (1700) 82 The full Testimony that they [the Books of the New Testament] give to the Books of the Old Testament, does sufficiently prove their [sc. the latter's] Authority and Genuineness. 1706Hearne Collect. 12 Jan. (O.H.S.) I. 161 Y⊇ Genuiness of y⊇ Fragment. 1738Warburton Div. Leg. I. 111 The Genuineness of these Remains. 1752Miss Talbot Let. 17 Dec. (1808) 317 Madame de Maintenon's letters..have all marks of genuineness, but no vouchers. 1796Bp. Watson Apol. Bible ix. 334 The genuineness of Paul's Epistles proves their authenticity. 1864Bowen Logic xiii. 426 The age and genuineness of the document must first be proved. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. App. 786 Two charters of very doubtful genuineness.
3. Of persons, character, sentiments, etc.: Honesty, freedom from affectation or hypocrisy.
1840Carlyle Heroes (1858) 234 One would say the primary character of the Koran is this of its genuineness, of its being a bona fide book. 1853Dickens Lett. (1880) I. 314, I was greatly pleased with his genuineness altogether. |