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Unfeigned

Unfeigned \Un*feigned"\, a. Not feigned; not counterfeit; not hypocritical; real; sincere; genuine; as, unfeigned piety; unfeigned love to man. ``Good faith unfeigned.''
--Chaucer. -- Un*feign"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*feign"ed*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unfeigned

late 14c., "sincere, genuine, true, real," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of feign (v.).

Wiktionary
unfeigned

a. 1 Not feigned 2 genuine 3 Not false or hypocritical

WordNet
unfeigned

adj. not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed; "genuine emotion"; "her interest in people was unfeigned"; "true grief" [syn: genuine, true(a)]

Usage examples of "unfeigned".

Gordian went out to meet him, and the three princes made their entry into the capital, attended by the ambassadors of almost all the cities of Italy, saluted with the splendid offerings of gratitude and superstition, and received with the unfeigned acclamations of the senate and people, who persuaded themselves that a golden age would succeed to an age of iron.

Cherry was always ready to do whatever her kind hostess wished, and happily ran errands, unravelled tangled embroidery silks, went for tediously slow walks with her round the gardens, accompanied her on sedate drives in her landaulette, read aloud to her, and listened with unfeigned interest to her store of very dull anecdotes.

Let it be thy earnest and incessant care as a Roman and a man to perform whatsoever it is that thou art about, with true and unfeigned gravity, natural affection, freedom and justice: and as for all other cares, and imaginations, how thou mayest ease thy mind of them.

It is unwise even now to compare any man unfavorably with Cromwell, but there was a simplicity about that great bad man which was far more impressive for being totally unpracticed and unfeigned.

From this he had gained the reputation -- not quite deserved -- of being a very warmhearted, sympathetic man, and he had won the heart of many a sea-captain, of many a farmer, of many an old working-woman by the unfeigned interest he showed in their conversation.

And Alypius, beginning again to hear me, was involved in the same superstition as I was, loving in the Manichaeans that ostentation of continency 385 which he believed to be true and unfeigned.

For hence he is loved who is commended when the commender is believed to praise him with an unfeigned heart.

In such cases, the minimum wage did not apply, and the lisping, retarded girl told Jack with unfeigned awe that she was getting a dollar and twenty-five cents each hour, and all for her.