genuiness

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Noun[edit]

genuiness (uncountable)

  1. Nonstandard form of genuineness.
    • 1712, A[bel] Boyer, The History of the Reign of Queen Anne, Digested Into Annals. [], Printed by D.L. [], page 277:
      Nay, ſome were afterwards ſo bold, as in a Printed Letter from a (ſuppoſed) Whig Gentleman in the Country, to a Friend in Town, to queſtion the Genuineſs of that Memorial, and to laugh at it as a bare faced IMPOSTURE: []
    • 1898, R[obert] G[reen] Ingersoll, Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll. [], Chicago, I.L.: Rhodes & McClure Publishing Co., page 449:
      Must one be versed in Latin before he is entitled to express his opinion as to the genuiness of a pretended revelation from God? Common sense belongs exclusively to no tongue.
    • 1985 March 12, “How the Arab and the Jew can be friends”, in Peter Preston, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15:
      This Arab teacher clearly believed in the genuiness of the new initiative.
    • 2007, William E. McGee, Men of Granite: True Stories of New Hampshire's Fighting Men, Portsmouth, N.H.: Peter E. Randall Publisher LLC, →ISBN, page 214:
      Although not sure of the genuiness of the map, General Schwarzkopf ordered his ground commanders to emplace their units along the three proposed invasion routes.

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