Both Uses
genuine
in
A Tale of Two Cities
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- For a moment, he held the fair face from him to look at the well-remembered expression on the forehead, and then laid the bright golden hair against his little brown wig, with a genuine tenderness and delicacy which, if such things be old-fashioned, were as old as Adam.†
Chpt 2.18genuine = real
- Genuine truth, Mr. Darnay, trust me!†
Chpt 2.20 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(genuine) real (as when a person is sincere or an object is not a replica or fake)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)