Literary notes about genuine (AI summary)
Writers use "genuine" to signal an unadulterated authenticity—whether referring to profound ideas, personal worth, or raw emotion. In some works, it qualifies debates and abstract reasoning, suggesting that even lofty, metaphysical discourse cannot escape the influence of everyday, practical concerns [1]. In character sketches and narrative descriptions alike, it distinguishes real, heartfelt qualities from artifice: a man’s upright character or an emotion expressed with truthful intensity are all rendered more memorable when labeled genuine [2], [3]. The term further marks historical texts or relics, setting apart what is authentically original from later embellishments or mere imitations [4], [5]. Whether in moments of sincere ecstasy or quiet, unpretentious demeanor, "genuine" continuously emphasizes an underlying core that is unfeigned and reliable [6], [7].
- Accordingly, in every genuine metaphysical debate some practical issue, however conjectural and remote, is involved.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James - He is a man of genuine worth, and neither a disappointed candidate for Government employ nor a briefless barrister.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore - Tom was suffering in reality, now, so handsomely was his imagination working, and so his groans had gathered quite a genuine tone.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain - The nucleus of this work is probably genuine, though large additions have been made by later hands.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi - Such a philosophy does not represent the genuine purport of science.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - “Ah, monsieur, you infuse genuine balm into my blood.
— from The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - He was so genuine and unsophisticated that no introduction would serve to introduce him, more than if you introduced a woodchuck to your neighbor.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
