genuineness
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the quality of being true, authentic, or valid.
The genuineness of these original manuscripts is undeniable.
There is an issue concerning the genuineness of the defendant's signature.
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the quality of being free from pretense, deceit, or affectation; sincerity.
There was a genuineness about him which most people recognized, and which endeared him to them.
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Genuineness isn’t something that people can fake very well or very easily.
From The Verge • May 21, 2020
Genuineness is a quality which we sometimes mean to include when we speak of individuality.
From On Being Human by Wilson, Woodrow
On the division of Israel into thousands, hundreds, etc.—a division which existed before the time of Moses—compare what has been advanced in my Dissertations on the Genuineness of the Pentateuch, ii. p.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
They were rather, as Norton has shown, Genuineness of the Gospels, vol.
From Companion to the Bible by Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter)
Inquiry into the Genuineness of the Letters of Logan of Restalrig, on which depends the Historical Question of the reality of the Gowrie Conspiracy.
From Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850 by Various
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