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veritable
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synonyms: veridical, bona fide ???
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Definition:real; true; genuine(used as an intensifier—in the same way people often use the word literal )
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the Government persecutes us, and the absurd legislation that rules us is a veritable Damocles' sword over our heads.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary.
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A veritable Proteus of the highway, with bewildering ease he switched from one vehicle to another.
Nabokov Vladimir. Lolita
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“He is small and elusive.” Ignatius’ voice was cunning. “He is given to many disguises. He is a veritable will-o’-the-wisp, scurrying here and there in his never-ending search for marauders. [...]"
John Kennedy Toole. A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
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before the invention of electricity it was necessary to maintain, over the whole of the six continents, a veritable army of 462,511 lamplighters for the street lamps.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The Little Prince, p.56 (Katherine Woods translation) (1943)
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Miss Matilda Murray was a veritable hoyden, of whom little need be said.
Anne Brontë. Agnes Grey (1847)
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he had doubtless been transported a long way off, and that he was dead to me, and might be veritably dead into the bargain.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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