Genuineness
['dʒɛnjʊɪnnɪs]
Examples
- Part of the genuineness is its unpretentious humanity. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Indeed, through this very loophole of character, the reality, depth, genuineness of that refinement may be ascertained. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I suppose,' said he, with a gleam of hope, 'there's no doubt about the genuineness and date of this confounded will? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- To Dorothea this was adorable genuineness, and religious abstinence from that artificiality which uses up the soul in the efforts of pretence. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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