uncounterfeited
uncounterfeited adjective: not counterfeited; genuine.
Adjective
uncounterfeited (not comparable)
- Not counterfeited; genuine.
- If your vertues be uncounterfayted, if your religion be sound and pure, if your doings be according to true godlines: you shal be a stay to your cuntrie […]1571, Arthur Golding, “Epistle Dedicatorie”, in The Psalmes of David and others. With M. John Calvins Commentaries
- But how great soever the satisfaction was which this happy couple received from my behaviour towards them, I think it could scarce exceed what I felt in my own bosom, on finding so perfect a harmony, so uncounterfeited a tenderness, so warm an affection, reciprocally given and paid between two...1755, Eliza Haywood (pseudonym Exploralibus), The Invisible Spy, London: T. Gardner, Volume 3, Book 6, Chapter 1, p. 175
Origin of uncounterfeited
From un- + counterfeited.
Questions about uncounterfeited
- What does uncounterfeited mean?
- Uncounterfeited means not counterfeited; genuine.
- What part of speech is uncounterfeited?
- Uncounterfeited is an adjective.
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