UNFEIGNED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unfeigned mean? 

• UNFEIGNED (adjective)
  The adjective UNFEIGNED has 1 sense:

1. not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed

  Familiarity information: UNFEIGNED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNFEIGNED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed

Synonyms:

genuine; true; unfeigned

Context example:

true grief

Similar:

sincere (open and genuine; not deceitful)

 Context examples 

“You reasoned it out beautifully,” I exclaimed in unfeigned admiration.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was on foot, and after looking very respectfully at her, looked with most unfeigned satisfaction at her companion.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

While her hand was trembling under these letters, her eye running from one to the other, and her heart swelling with emotion, Crawford thus continued, with unfeigned eagerness, to express his interest in the event—I will not talk of my own happiness, said he, great as it is, for I think only of yours.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Jennings, perhaps satisfied with the partial justification of her forebodings which had been found in their late alarm, allowed herself to trust in his judgment, and admitted, with unfeigned joy, and soon with unequivocal cheerfulness, the probability of an entire recovery.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He had received a consignment of books upon philology and was settling down to develop this thesis when suddenly, to my sorrow and to his unfeigned delight, we found ourselves, even in that land of dreams, plunged into a problem at our very doors which was more intense, more engrossing, and infinitely more mysterious than any of those which had driven us from London.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And her thoughts flew to those absent cousins with most unfeigned and truly tender regret, that they were not at home to take their own place in the room, and have their share of a pleasure which would have been so very delightful to them.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)