Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

uncounterfeited

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-coun-ter-feit-ed
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not counterfeited; genuine.

Example Sentences

"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 […]"
"1755, Eliza Haywood (pseudonym Exploralibus), The Invisible Spy, London: T. Gardner, Volume 3, Book 6, Chapter 1, p. 175, 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 persons united in the manner they were […]"
"They laughed with uncounterfeited glee as the narrator told with eloquent pantomime, how he had prepared to receive the punishment of the rod with forty stripes or so, plus as many more as the rod would stand […]"

Etymology

From un- + counterfeited.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Questions

What does uncounterfeited mean?: Not counterfeited; genuine.
Where does uncounterfeited come from?: From un- + counterfeited.

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