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Example sentences for "genuine"

Lexicographically close words:
genu; genua; genuflections; genuflexions; genug; genuinely; genuineness; genuit; genus; genuwine
  1. Antoninus is brave and generous, and we sympathize with his genuine attachment for Dorothea.

  2. A fixed sense of truth and rectitude gives genuine superiority; it corrects the proud, and abashes the vain, and marks the proper limits between humility and presumption.

  3. Such a diet does not necessitate the horrible cruelties of the cattle-boat and the slaughter-house--therefore it must commend itself to every genuine humanitarian.

  4. Clement of Alexandria quotes it several times as a genuine record of Peter's teaching.

  5. The writers, moreover, were men of genuine poetical feeling, ingenious in invention, and capable of expressing emotion with energy and liveliness; the colouring of their pieces is sometimes highly dramatic.

  6. The letter, which is only printed in fragments, is not in Anne's style, and if genuine was probably dictated by the Churchills.

  7. Many ancient critics believed the 'Works and Days' to be the only genuine work of Hesiod, and their opinion has been adopted by most modern scholars.

  8. Fidelity to the work or everyday duties at hand, and a genuine feeling of responsibility to our parents or employers, ourselves, and our God, will eventually bring most of us into the right niches at the proper time.

  9. How gladly would these women whose affections are blighted by cold indifference or the unfaithfulness of their husbands, exchange their liberal allowance, their luxuries, for genuine sympathy and affection!

  10. Scarcely a man returns to us dropping off in genuine old age, as autumn leaves drop in the forest.

  11. It would be as impossible for selfish seed, greed seed to produce a harvest of contentment, of genuine satisfaction, of real joy, as for thistle seeds to produce a harvest of wheat or corn.

  12. He is the genuine artist who makes the greatest variety express the greatest unity, who develops the leading idea in the central figure, and makes all the subordinate figures, lights, and shades point to that center and find expression there.

  13. It is an insult to womanhood to try to satisfy her nature with material things, while the affections are famishing for genuine sympathy and love, for social life, for contact with the great, throbbing world outside.

  14. They are genuine block books, strange to say, apparently carved on wood, and then stamped on a Chinese paper.

  15. He is rather a nuisance, and I shall be glad when he goes, as there is little but his odd fate to interest one in him; and I have considerable doubts as to his genuine origin.

  16. There is not a better man or more genuine soldier going.

  17. To us who read in the light of present views what is a feature of the Iliad fatal to any genuine interest in the story?

  18. But the genuine hausfrau considers them a “snare and delusion.

  19. They must have their visit to the Tower, long days in the Museum and the art galleries, for had they not, each and all, in one form or another, the genuine Kensington craze?

  20. What he gained was often fragmentary and uncouth, but it had the advantage of being a genuine product.

  21. It is the hour sans-souci for the genuine “hausfrau.

  22. Your picture of America is faithful enough: yet Boston contains some genuine taste for literature, and a good deal of traditional reverence for it.

  23. A genuine little Poetess, buckramed, swathed like a mummy into Socinian and Political-Economy formulas; and yet verily alive in the inside of that!

  24. That is genuine thunder, which nobody that wears ears can affect to mistake for the rumbling of cart-wheels.

  25. Genuine endeavor; which may the Heavens forward!

  26. The characters in Greek tragedy are far from being types or personified abstractions, as those of classical French tragedy tend to be: they are genuine individuals.

  27. The theory criticised in this paragraph arises, I think, from a misapplication of the truth that the content of a genuine poem is fully expressible only in the words of that poem.

  28. No genuine play of Shakespeare's, I suppose, is so military from beginning to end; and we know how in Henry V.

  29. Yet has it been adopted as the genuine text by all the Editors and all the Critics.

  30. Confessedly spurious, these accretions to the genuine text often bear traces of pious intelligence, and occasionally of considerable ability.

  31. Besides this, the evidence on the Traditional side is too strong to admit of it not being the genuine reading.

  32. By consequence, itself must needs be genuine also[577].

  33. Tregelles is 'fully satisfied that this narrative is not a genuine part of St. John's Gospel[588].

  34. And if I ask you' to the end), and will he doubt either that the words are genuine or that their disappearance from four copies of bad character, as proved by their constant evidence, and from one version is sufficiently explained?

  35. In other words, the paragraph under discussion is found to be an integral part of the immediately antecedent narrative: proves to be a fragment of what is universally admitted to be genuine Scripture.

  36. He stared at her blankly in an astonishment too genuine to be feigned.

  37. The only genuine liberty consists in a mean equally distant from the despotism of an individual and of a million," asserted Publicola.

  38. By natural contrast in their own minds, as well as by assertions of their leaders, the State Governments were the sources of justice and the protectors of the genuine rights of man.

  39. He made speeches in support of Washington's stand, wrote pamphlets, and appealed in every possible way to the solid reason and genuine Americanism of his neighbors.

  40. The only genuine liberty consists in a mean equally distant from the despotism of an individual and a million.

  41. There is in the interior a fine painting of St. Anthony of Padua, supposed to be a genuine Murillo.

  42. Close by the chapel stands a genuine old cottage, whitewashed and thatched, a remnant of the time when Paddington was largely composed of open ground.

  43. The payment of a nominal fee of a penny to insure genuine cases is all that is exacted.

  44. There does not seem to have been the most complete sympathy between mother and son, yet De Quincey was always reverent in his attitude, and certainly entertained a genuine respect for her intelligence and character.

  45. The novelty of the subject was sufficient to obtain for the new writer an interested hearing, and there was much discussion as to whether his apparent frankness was genuine or assumed.

  46. When all that labour has been accomplished, the miracles of the genuine rolls of Scripture are to be regarded as integral elements of faith.

  47. There is absolutely no room for any reasonable doubt that we have in our hands in these four letters the true and genuine compositions of Saul of Tarsus, after he had become a Christian.

  48. We have, then, before us genuine historical documents of Christianity, composed by its most active missionary at about the same distance of time from the resurrection as that which separates us from the repeal of the Corn Law Act.

  49. Mansana was no orator, but the genuine earnestness of his words and manner, and the emotion evident in the hand which quivered as he raised it to his cap in farewell salutation, produced on the princess all the effect of real eloquence.

  50. She showed herself bright and witty and friendly to every one, distributing her favours impartially amongst the men and ladies, and it was not long before a tone of genuine gaiety prevailed.

  51. A genuine fear came over him at a sudden alarming thought; was the house full of people, and was he, perhaps, the victim of some plot?

  52. In so far we have embodied in the first part of the epic dim recollections of actual events, but we soon leave the solid ground of fact and find ourselves soaring to the heights of genuine myth.

  53. There is a genuine vein of poetry in The Yeomen of the Guard.

  54. The separated parts of this altar-piece are still to be seen, in a quite genuine though somewhat tarnished condition, in the sacristy of St Peter's.

  55. It is his honest belief that no genuine interests of religion are compromised by scientific or literary studies; that religion is independent of history, that Christianity is independent of the New Testament.

  56. Mr. Baring-Gould argues that while neither of our present Gospels is entitled to be called genuine in the ordinary sense, they contain authentic biographical materials.

  57. He claims to possess the historical sense, by virtue of which he is able to separate the genuine from the ungenuine portions of the Gospels.

  58. The writings that publish it, are the genuine letters of Paul, and other scriptures produced under the inspiration of his idea.

  59. But you will rather, thereby, apprehend the true and genuine Sycamore, or Sycaminus, which is a stranger in our parts.

  60. Everard, in a tone so serious that it imposed on his companion, who replied in his genuine character-- "Worse!

  61. Why, who should speak genuine Scottish but myself?

  62. An exclamation of genuine indignation arose from all present.

  63. Another thing about him pleased her: that was the look of genuine admiration and respect with which he regarded her.

  64. If ever the qualities of compassion, depth of understanding, humor, and genuine care are to be found in one person, they are in him.

  65. As long as inner conflicts continue, you try not to be the person you are; you cannot be genuine and are divided against yourself.

  66. Need for Acceptance, Human Warmth, and Gentle Encouragement Do you feel that perhaps no one has ever taken the time to listen to you, to take a genuine interest in you and in your problems as a person?

  67. The therapist tries to make clear that he is a genuine person who has, in some areas of his life, been able to plan effectively and to develop a sense of personal success.

  68. If you are to become a mature and genuine person, you must discard the lies you have cultivated.

  69. At Cumberland I beheld for the first time a genuine train of dogs.

  70. It is also important to consider the association of this Epistle with that to Philemon: the transparent genuineness of the latter makes it practically certain that Colossians is genuine as well.

  71. In the same way Marcion, although he made unscrupulous alterations in Luke in order to prove that it was really Marcionite, obviously accepted it as a genuine work of the apostolic age.

  72. And if we turn to the passages which tell us facts not recorded by the Synoptists, it is quite impossible to separate the supposed fictions from the supposed genuine traditions.

  73. It is quoted by Irenaeus, the pupil of Polycarp, and was recognized as genuine in widely distant Churches at the close of the 2nd century.

  74. The Gospel of St. John is none the less genuine for being of the nature of a treatise, intended to bring certain aspects of the life of our Lord to bear upon the intellectual life of Ephesus.

  75. Otherwise it would not have been so universally regarded as genuine during the 2nd century.

  76. He would have rejected them, whether genuine or not, on account of the sanction given to the Old Testament in xv.

  77. The letters attributed to St. Ignatius, the martyr bishop of Antioch, are now universally admitted to be genuine by competent scholars.

  78. St. John, and is almost certainly a genuine story which the apostle knew, and which Christians afterwards inserted in his Gospel.

  79. The Church set these genuine books apart as having their origin in inspiration which came from God.

  80. They are genuine writings of the apostolic age, and were received by men whose lifetime overlapped the lifetime of some of the apostles.

  81. No gun so named is genuine unless marked on the heel plate with the trade mark of the firm.

  82. All Genuine Goods are stamped with the Name, J.


  83. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "genuine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aboveboard; absolute; actual; artless; authentic; bluff; blunt; broad; brusque; bucolic; candid; concrete; devout; direct; downright; explicit; factual; forthright; foursquare; frank; free; genuine; good; hard; heartfelt; hearty; historical; homespun; honest; implicit; inartificial; indubitable; ingenuous; intrinsic; lawful; legitimate; lifelike; literal; native; natural; naturalistic; open; original; outspoken; pastoral; plain; positive; pukka; pure; real; realistic; right; rightful; round; rural; serious; simple; sincere; solid; square; sterling; straight; straightforward; substantial; sure; transparent; true; unadorned; unadulterated; unaffected; unassuming; unchecked; uncolored; unconstrained; undeniable; undesigning; undisguised; undistorted; undoubted; unequivocal; unexaggerated; unflattering; unguarded; unimagined; unpretentious; unqualified; unquestionable; unreserved; unrestrained; unromantic; unsophisticated; unspoiled; unvarnished; verbal; verbatim; veritable; very; wholehearted