Meanings
- Synonym of ring of truth.
The letter lacked a ring of authenticity that would settle her doubts.
3 more examples
[…]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...
1878, Hertfordshire MercuryThe inner workings of government, of newspapers, of the law, and even of merchant ships and the dockside — these details have the ring of authenticity.
1962, Margaret Laurence, “Ring of authenticity”, in Canadian LiteratureCertainly there is no part of the Gospel record which has for the reader a clearer ring of authenticity.
2004, Craig A. Evans, The Historical Jesus, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 7Synonyms: ring of truth
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of ring of truth.
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