Word Finder - authenticity

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The quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original.

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I hereby certify the authenticity of this copy.

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Truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, and intentions.

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The authenticity of this painting is questionable.

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The quality of being authentic (of established authority).

The authenticity of the quote has occasionally been disputed, but without reason.

How can he establish authenticity selling health products while he's smoking those things?

His defence of the authenticity of the Epistles of Ignatius is one of the most important contributions to that very difficult controversy.

The authenticity of his list of 10 antediluvian kings who reigned for 120 sari or 432,000 years, has been partially confirmed by the inscriptions; but his 8 postdiluvian dynasties are difficult to reconcile with the monuments, and the numbers attached to them are probably corrupt.

The only likeness of Servetus is a small copperplate by C. Sichem, 1607 (often reproduced); the original is not known and the authenticity is uncertain.

Certain recent critics, however, have questioned the authenticity of the narrative.

But this document is of very doubtful authenticity.

Contestants on the show wear bandanas, so giving each team a different colored bandana will add a touch of authenticity while also providing an easy party favor.

There is extant a Journal of Louise of Savoy, the authenticity of which seems certain.

Not stopping to reflect that in the angry and suspicious state of men's minds he was sure to lose as much in one direction as he would gain in the other, Justinian entered into the idea, and put forth an edict exposing and denouncing the errors contained in the writings of Theodore generally, in the treatise of Theodoret against Cyril of Alexandria, and in a letter of Bishop Ibas (a letter whose authenticity was doubted, but which passed under his name) to the Persian bishop Marls.

The objections were that the evidence was not probative, failed to meet the authenticity burden and was unfairly prejudicial to the defense.

People sometimes get very preoccupied with worrying about the authenticity of sources.

Some were of doubtful authenticity.

A film not imbued with ' nativity ' was criticized for its lack of cultural moorings and considered devoid of authenticity and conviction.

Further ensuring its authenticity, the stockings were then placed on traditional styled boarders after dyeing.

A long treatise on geometry, attributed to Gerbert, is of somewhat doubtful authenticity.

The Souvenirs du comte de Caylus, published in 1805, is of very doubtful authenticity.

It was for a long time usual to doubt the authenticity of the speeches post reditum and pro Marcello.I Recent scholars consider them genuine.

About one hundred of his alleged writings exist, the majority in manuscript and of doubtful authenticity.

We must, however, handle these with some caution, since some of the poems (" Idylls ") commonly attributed to him have little claim to authenticity.

Westerners throw much doubt on the historical authenticity of the Bible.

Care cards, insert tissue, boxes, and even serial numbers can also be reproduced, just like the bag itself, and are not good indicators of authenticity.

Josephus' history of the Jews contains accounts of John the Baptist and Jesus, the authenticity of which has been called in question for plausible but not entirely convincing reasons.

She supplied Bishop Heber in 1732 with other biographical data of doubtful authenticity.

It is indeed supported by several critics who reject the latter, just as it is occasionally rejected by advocates of their authenticity.

On account of the divergence of its style from that of the History of Armenia, Armenian scholars have hesitated to ascribe the Rhetoric to Moses of Khor`ni; but, from what has been said above, this is rather to be regarded as a proof of its authenticity.

As their rhythmical structure corresponds more or less exactly with the canon of authenticity formed by Zielinski from the other speeches, the question may now be considered closed.

The springs of Baden were known to the Romans, and the foundation of the town is referred to the emperor Hadrian by an inscription of somewhat doubtful authenticity.

He also investigated the oxygen compounds of phosphorus and nitrogen, and was ' The names of the musical instruments in those verses of the Book of Daniel have formed the basis of a controversy as to the authenticity of the book.

Most remarkable of all has been the cumulative strength of the arguments adduced by Jewish writers favourable to the authenticity of the discourses in the Fourth Gospel ..."

The authenticity of these chapters has been undeservedly attacked by Catholic writers.

The latter is the most ancient work on this instrument, and its authenticity is rendered almost certain by its reference to Ammonius as the master of the author.

It is no longer necessary for serious criticism to refute the objections to its authenticity raised during the 19th century in certain quarters;12 as Macaulay said of the authenticity of Caesar's commentaries, "to doubt on that subject is the mere rage of scepticism."

They bear in themselves irrefutable proofs of their authenticity, bringing us face to face not with the Zoroaster of the legends but with a real person, announcing a new doctrine and way of salvation, no supernatural Being assured of victory, but a mere man, struggling with human conflicts of every sort, in the midst of a society of fellow-believers yet in its earliest infancy.

The results of his system of historical criticism had been adverse to the Catholic controversialists and to the authenticity of many of the documents upon which they had been accustomed to rely.

The last satire is now imperfect, and the authenticity both of this and of the fifteenth has been questioned, though on insufficient grounds.

Julio Cesar Machado and Fialho de Almeida made their mark by many humorous publications, and, in the domain of pure literary criticism, mention must be made of Antonio Pedro Lopes de Mendonga, Rebello da Silva, Dr Joaquim de Vasconcellos, Mme Michaelis de Vasconcellos, Silva Pinto, the favourite disciple of Castello Branco, and of Luciano Cordeiro, founder of the Lisbon Geographical Society, whose able monograph, Soror Marianna, vindicated the authenticity of the Letters of a Portuguese Nun and showed Marianna Alcoforado to be their authoress.

Of the published works attributed to him, 83 are recognized as genuine, 19 are of doubtful authenticity, 45 are confessedly spurious, 19 are fragments, and 15 are notes on the writings of Hippocrates.

The former is legendary work, partly in verse, on the life of Gotama, the historical Buddha; and the latter, also partly in verse, is devoted to proving the essential identity of the Great and the Little Vehicles, and the equal authenticity of both as doctrines enunciated by the master himself.

A story of doubtful authenticity tells how he refused to crown King Harold I., as he had promised Canute to crown none but a son of the king by his wife, Emma.

But from the beginning of the 17th century there have never been wanting disbelievers in its authenticity.

The reader must, however, be on his guard against confusing the authenticity of the fifth book generally with that of supposed early copies of it.

A considerable portion of the controversy centres round the question of the authenticity of Thomas Winter's confession, the MS. of which is at Hatfield, supported by Professor Gardiner, but denied by Father Gerard principally on account of the document having been signed "Winter" instead of "Wintour," the latter apparently being the conspirator's usual style of signature.

One almost wishes that critical reasons could be found for denying its authenticity.

As to the authenticity of these hymns, see Zoroaster.

They do not possess any special merit, and their authenticity is often doubtful.

It seems needless to give references to the voluminous discussion in newspapers and periodicals concerning the authenticity of a wax bust of Flora acquired in 1909 for the Berlin Museum and unfortunately ascribed to Leonardo da Vinci, its real author having been proved by external and internal evidence to be the Englishman Richard Cockle Lucas, and its date 1846.

Boyle's Vindication and Bentley's refutation of the authenticity of Phalaris came later.

Where suitably placed long-period gauges exist, and where care has been exercised in ascertaining the authenticity of their, records and in making the comparisons, the short records of the local gauges may be thus carried back into the long periods with nearly correct results.

At first received with enthusiasm, their authenticity soon came to be impugned; and their true significance was largely lost sight of as it began to be realized that they were not what they claimed to be.