Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an authentic manner.
  • With the requisite or genuine authority.
  • With certainty.
  • Actually; really.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In an authentic manner; with the requisite or genuine authority.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In an authentic manner; with the requisite or genuine authority.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb genuinely; with authority

Etymologies

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authentic +‎ -ally

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Examples

  • The power of using the social aspects of the web to grow your business is in authentically sharing your transparent self.

    Women Grow Business » The Limits of Social Networking Surrogacy 2010

  • The power of using the social aspects of the web to grow your business is in authentically sharing your transparent self.

    Women Grow Business » The Limits of Social Networking Surrogacy 2010

  • The very act of writing authentically is one of rebellion.

    Archive 2009-01-01 L. Lee Lowe 2009

  • The very act of writing authentically is one of rebellion.

    And now let us praise uncertainties L. Lee Lowe 2009

  • The power of using the social aspects of the web to grow your business is in authentically sharing your transparent self.

    Women Grow Business » 2010 » March 2010

  • The power of using the social aspects of the web to grow your business is in authentically sharing your transparent self.

    Women Grow Business » 2010 » March 2010

  • I don't ever think or say that it's impossible for someone to write authentically from the point of view of someone on a lower rung of the power pyramid; the pyramid model itself is just a representation/theory, that's useful for discussions of why it's easier to write up the lines of power rather than the reverse.

    Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2004

  • If we want to have a sense of what it was like to be a member of a family, a nuclear family in the American 50's or 60's, you really can't get that authentically from a TV sit com, or from a Hollywood movie, or from a news reel.

    Boing Boing: August 18, 2002 - August 24, 2002 Archives 2002

  • Beyond the quite frankly racist overtones, "authentically black" is a code word for "liberal".

    Say Anything alacrityfitz@hotmail.com 2010

  • 2 Live Crew, Tupac Shakur, and Eminem may have been co-opted by record companies, but they emerged authentically from the streets.

    The Return of the Pig 2003

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