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unapocryphal

unapocryphal adjective: not apocryphal; not of doubtful authority, authoritative.

Adjective

unapocryphal (comparative more unapocryphal, superlative most unapocryphal)

  1. Not apocryphal; not of doubtful authority, authoritative
    • For books are as meats and viands are; ſome of good, ſome of evill ſubſtance; and yet God in that unapocryphall viſion, ſaid without exception, Riſe Peter, kill and eat, leaving the choice to each mans diſcretion.1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 11

Forms of unapocryphal

comparativemore unapocryphal
superlativemost unapocryphal
alternative form (obsolete)unapocryphall

Origin of unapocryphal

From un- + apocryphal.

Questions about unapocryphal

What does unapocryphal mean?
Unapocryphal means not apocryphal; not of doubtful authority, authoritative.
What part of speech is unapocryphal?
Unapocryphal is an adjective.

Words near unapocryphal in the dictionary

  1. unapart
  2. unapathetic
  3. unapelike
  4. unapertured
  5. unapocopated
  6. unapocryphal
  7. unapocryphall
  8. unapologetic
  9. unapologetically
  10. unapologies
  11. unapologising

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