ring of authenticity

English

Noun

ring of authenticity (plural not attested)

  1. 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:
      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.
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