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Genuine

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Genuine

GEN'UINE, adjective [Latin genuinus, from enus, or its root. See Gender.]

Native; belonging to the original stock; hence, real; natural; true; pure; not spurious, false or adulterated. The Gaels are supposed to be genuine descendants of the Celts. Vices and crimes are the genuine effects of depravity, as virtue and piety are the genuine fruits of holiness. It is supposed we have the genuine text of Homer.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Genuinely

GEN'UINELY, adverb Without adulteration or foreign admixture; naturally.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Genuineness

GEN'UINENESS, noun The state of being native, or of the true original; hence, freedom from adulteration or foreign admixture; freedom from any thing false or counterfeit; purity; reality; as the genuineness of Livy's history; the genuineness of faith or repentance.