ring of authenticity
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[edit]Noun
[edit]ring of authenticity (plural not attested)
- Alternative form of ring of truth
- The letter lacked the ring of authenticity that would settle her doubts.
- 1878, Hertfordshire Mercury:
- ...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...
- 1962, Margaret Laurence, “Ring of authenticity”, in Canadian Literature[1]:
- 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.