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Echt

//ɛkt// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Proper, real, genuine, true to type.

    "I had heard [the phrase] in Lamb House, Rye, but it was less echt Henry James than Henry James mocking echt Meredith."

Adjective
  1. 1
    not fake or counterfeit wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from German echt (“real”). The German term originates from Middle Low German echt (“lawful, genuine”), contraction of ehacht, variant form of ehaft (“lawful, pertaining to the law”) from ê(e) (“law, marriage”). First use in English appears c. 1916.

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