All 5 Uses

genuine
in
The Secret Life of Bees
(Edited)

She was more or less missing a chin, too, but even so, she was above-average pretty, which offered me genuine hope for my future.
p. 13.9

genuine = real
You could say I'd never had a true religious moment, the kind where you know yourself spoken to by a voice that seems other than yourself, spoken to so genuinely you see the words shining on trees and clouds.
p. 41.5

genuinely = truly
He moved like a person with a genuine love of bees.
p. 126.5

genuine = true
"When he proposed, she said no."
"But she married him," I said, genuinely confused.
p. 248.9 *

genuinely = truly

editor's notes: This introduces the moment when Lily learns that her mother married her father because she became pregnant with Lily.
I brought the brush close to my face and stared at it, my mother's hair, a genuine part of her body.
p. 273.6

genuine = actual (real)

Definitions:

(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)