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authenticity|ɔːθənˈtɪsɪtɪ|
Also 7 authentity.
[f. authentic a. + -ity. Cf. mod.F. authenticité.]
The quality of being authentic, or entitled to acceptance,
1. as being authoritative or duly authorized.
1657Trapp Comm. Job i. 1 Sufficiently asserting the authentity and authority of this Book. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. II. 254 He proved the authenticity of his mission.
2. as being in accordance with fact, as being true in substance.
1762H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) I. 53 The portrait..was rather a work of command and imagination than of authenticity. 1790Boswell Johnson V. ix. 295 What I have preserved..has the value of the most perfect authenticity. 1830J. Poynder in Academy 21 Oct. (1876) 410/1 The value of the evidence must, of course, depend entirely on its authenticity. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. App. 663 The fact at once stamps its authenticity.
3. as being what it professes in origin or authorship, as being genuine; genuineness.
1760Hume in Four C. Eng. Lett. 243 With regard to the authenticity of these fragments of our Highland poetry. 1790Paley Hor. Paul. i. 3 As to the authenticity of the epistles, this argument..is nearly conclusive. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) II. iv. i. 175 note, Though not free from interpolation yet there seems no reason to doubt its authenticity.
4. as being real, actual; reality.
1851‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848, 116 A voucher for the authenticity of deeds of wanton cruelty.
¶ By some writers, especially on the Christian evidences, authenticity has been confined to sense 2, and genuineness used in sense 3. |