Au`then*tic"i*ty (&?;), n. [Cf. F.
authenticité.] 1. The quality of being
authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness.
2. Genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not
corrupted from the original.
&fist; In later writers, especially those on the evidences of
Christianity, authenticity is often restricted in its use to the
first of the above meanings, and distinguished from qenuineness.