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† auˈthenticness Obs.
[f. authentic a. + -ness.]
Authentic quality; authenticity.
1. Authoritativeness, authority: = authenticity 1.
1629Donne Serm. xxiv. 238 Another manner of credit and authentiquenesse then that which the Canonists speak of. 1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. iii. (1669) 286/2 Who will say that the Proclamation of a Prince hath its authentickness from the Piller it hangs on in the Market Cross?
2. = authenticity 2, 3.
1634–46Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 479 Sundrie old papers..that did verie much prove to the authenticknes of the old registers of the Kirk. 1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth iii. ii. (1723) 180 The Authentickness of the Mosaick Writings. 1709W. Smith in Thoresby's Corr. II. 171 Who vouch for the credit and authenticness of that which is usually called Chapernay's Charter. 1743M. Tomlinson Protest. Birthr. 18 A diligent Search into the Authentickness, Veracity, and Sense of the sacred Writings. |