genuiness
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]genuiness (uncountable)
- 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.