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Undisputed credibility
Answer for the clue "Undisputed credibility ", 12 letters:
authenticity
Word definitions for authenticity in dictionaries
Wikipedia
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In historical reenactment , authenticity (sometimes referred to as the A-factor or simply A ) is a measure of how close an item, prop, action, weapon, or custom is to what would actually have been used or done in the time period being depicted. For example, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. undisputed credibility [syn: genuineness , legitimacy ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original. 2 Truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, and intentions. 3 (context obsolete English) The quality of being authentic (of established authority).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Art experts have questioned the painting's authenticity . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But there is no escaping authenticity when the author has taken the photos himself. ▪ In terms of electronic records, compliance with rule ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Authenticity \Au`then*tic"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. authenticit['e].] The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness. Genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original. Note: In later writers, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1760; see authentic + -ity . Earlier form was authentity (1650s).
Usage examples of authenticity.
Peers extend to each other would have included avoiding the introductions of anachronisms into a mansion famed for its authenticity.
The sham of authenticity that discounts authorial involvement and intrusion is back in force in this novel written in the 1790s and published at the turn of the century.
Further proof could scarcely be needed, but Baschet has done more than prove the authenticity, he has proved the extraordinary veracity, of the Memoirs.
We would perhaps no longer be reading the authentic Sartre, but this move might provide an opportunity to depart from the metaphysical negativity of authenticity and bad faith that linger as symptoms of the limitations of existentialism, and to see how Sartre contributes to the power of Nietzsche in philosophy today.
The question of my passports must have been a mere pretext, for eight or ten days would have sufficed to send them to Madrid and have them back again if their authenticity had been doubted.
He was a poster boy Rasta and his own authenticity was what had alerted Spider to the fact he was a fake.
During all this time people have been discussing the authenticity and the truthfulness of the Memoirs, they have been searching for information about Casanova in various directions, and yet hardly any one has ever taken the trouble, or obtained the permission, to make a careful examination in precisely the one place where information was most likely to be found.
For a moment Dasaratha thought he was about to sketch a mantra in the air, blasting the second Vishwamitra to ashes, proving his own authenticity.
The thermoluminescence test was the benchmark of authenticity for all articles made of fired clay.
The consequence was that of those scenes, in the form of a husband, a father, a son, or a brother, a living history was to be found in every family--a history bearing the indubitable testimonies of its own authenticity, in the limbs mangled, in the scars of wounds received, in the midst of the very scenes related--a history, too, that could be read and understood alike by all, the wise and the ignorant, the learned and the unlearned.
Apostles, the authenticity of the writings of Dionysius the Areopagite and of the letter of Christ to King Abgarus, preserved and credited by Eusebius.
During all this time people have been discussing the authenticity and the truthfulness of the Memoirs, they have been searching for information about Casanova in various directions, and yet hardly any one has ever taken the trouble, or obtained the permission, to make a careful examination in precisely the one place where information was most likely to be found.
Here again we have an illustration of an incident - of dubious authenticity - demonstrating to the public the utter, utter unspeakable evilness of drugs and those who use them.
Time and moths had lent these standards a gauzelike authenticity while rust had etched a handiwork into the suited armour and armoury that they had never possessed when he had bought them.
Red Sox cap on the visiting Syrian Satellite pro, and the Syrian Satellite pro sits with most of the prorec-tors, looking confused, his shoulder taped up with a heatable compress, being polite about the comparative authenticity of Mrs.