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Etymology

Etymology tree English authentic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English authentically From authentic + -ally.

Meanings

1. In an authentic manner; genuinely
   • It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and it is even rarer that the specifically political qualifications survive the petty maneuvers of party politics with its demands for plain salesmanship. 1963, Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, New York: Viking, published 1965, Chapter 6, section 4, p. 282:
   • […]one genuinely shocking scene when Evelyn fat-shames her daughter – an authentically upsetting moment of family dysfunction that seems to come from another film, one in a parallel universe. 2022 May 11, Peter Bradshaw, “Everything Everywhere All at Once review – nothing nowhere over a long period of time”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
   • Contrary to popular belief, sushi doesn't have to be served over a bar. A favorite place to get authentically sushified. 2003 12, Let's Go Inc., Let's Go Japan 1st Ed, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 151:

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Translations (8)

ca autènticament (in an authentic manner) · fr authentiquement (in an authentic manner) · pl autentycznie (in an authentic manner) · it autenticamente (in an authentic manner) · gl autenticamente (in an authentic manner) · es auténticamente (in an authentic manner) · pt autenticamente (in an authentic manner) · fi autenttisesti (in an authentic manner)