All 3 Uses of
genuine
in
Northanger Abbey
- The stage could no longer excite genuine merriment—no longer keep her whole attention.†
Chpt 12 *
- If a speech be well drawn up, I read it with pleasure, by whomsoever it may be made—and probably with much greater, if the production of Mr. Hume or Mr. Robertson, than if the genuine words of Caractacus, Agricola, or Alfred the Great.†
Chpt 14
- Catherine heard, admired, and wondered with more genuine feeling than before—gathered all that she could from this storehouse of knowledge, by running over the titles of half a shelf, and was ready to proceed.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
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(genuine) real (as when a person is sincere or an object is not a replica or fake)