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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
genuine \gen"u*ine\, adjective [L. genuinus, fr. genere, gignere, to beget, in pass., to be born: cf. F. g['e]nuine. See {Gender}.] Belonging to, or proceeding from, the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials. ''True, genuine night.'' --Dryden.
Syn: Authentic; real; true; pure; unalloyed; unadulterated. See {Authentic}. -- {Gen"u*ine*ly}, adverb -- {Gen"u*ine*ness}, noun
The evidence, both internal and external, against the genuineness of these letters, is overwhelming. --Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
genuinely
adverb
1: in accordance with truth or fact or reality; "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us" [syn: {truly}, {really}]
2: genuinely; with authority; "it is authentically British" [syn: {authentically}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "genuinely": absolutely, actually, all joking aside, artlessly, authentically, bluffly, bluntly, broadly, brusquely, candidly, de facto, directly, frankly, guilelessly, honestly, in actuality, in all conscience, in all seriousness, in effect, in fact, in plain English, in plain words, in reality, ingenuously, legitimately, manifestly, naturally, obviously, openheartedly, openly, outspokenly, plain-spokenly, plainly, positively, really, roundly, simply, sincerely, straightforwardly, truly, unaffectedly, unassumedly, unconstrainedly, unreservedly, unrestrainedly, veridically, veritably, warts and all, with no nonsense
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