Etymology: < French génuité, according to Littré a false form for génuinité.
Obsolete. rare.
Simplicity.
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1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess.i. xxx. 102 They could not imagine a genuitie so pure and simple, as we see it by experience; nor ever beleeve our societie might be maintained with so little arte and humane combination.
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