All 7 Uses of
genuine
in
War and Peace
- He is one of the genuine emigres, the good ones.†
Chpt 1 *
- Bilibin was now at army headquarters in a diplomatic capacity, and though he wrote in French and used French jests and French idioms, he described the whole campaign with a fearless self-censure and self-derision genuinely Russian.†
Chpt 5
- He was so very polite, amiable, good-natured, and genuinely grateful to Pierre for saving his life that Pierre had not the heart to refuse, and sat down with him in the parlor—the first room they entered.†
Chpt 11
- Ramballe, with genuine distress and sympathy in his face, went up to Pierre and bent over him.†
Chpt 11
- We do not know for certain in how far his genius was genuine in Egypt—where forty centuries looked down upon his grandeur—for his great exploits there are all told us by Frenchmen.†
Chpt 13
- The genuine as well as the false paper money which flooded Moscow lost its value.†
Chpt 13
- Nicholas accepted thirty thousand rubles offered him by his brother-in-law Bezukhov to pay off debts he regarded as genuinely due for value received.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(genuine) real (as when a person is sincere or an object is not a replica or fake)