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ring of authenticity

ring of authenticity noun: synonym of ring of truth.

Noun

ring of authenticity

  1. Synonym of ring of truth.
    • The letter lacked a ring of authenticity that would settle her doubts.
    • […]but newspaper readers now-a-days are pretty well able to discriminate between items of news that have the true ring of authenticity about them...1878, Hertfordshire Mercury
    Synonyms:
    ring of truth

Examples of ring of authenticity in a sentence

  • The inner workings of government, of newspapers, of the law, and even of merchant ships and the dockside — these details have the ring of authenticity.1962, Margaret Laurence, “Ring of authenticity”, in Canadian Literature:
  • Certainly there is no part of the Gospel record which has for the reader a clearer ring of authenticity.2004, Craig A. Evans, The Historical Jesus, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 7:

Synonyms of ring of authenticity

Questions about ring of authenticity

What does ring of authenticity mean?
Ring of authenticity means synonym of ring of truth.
How do you use ring of authenticity in a sentence?
The inner workings of government, of newspapers, of the law, and even of merchant ships and the dockside — these details have the ring of authenticity.
What part of speech is ring of authenticity?
Ring of authenticity is a noun.

Words near ring of authenticity in the dictionary

  1. ring mail
  2. ring modulation
  3. ring modulations
  4. ring name
  5. ring names
  6. ring of authenticity
  7. ring of bells
  8. Ring of Fire
  9. ring of fractions
  10. ring of polynomials
  11. Ring of Solomon

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