Bona fide

But by the knots I am speaking of, may it please your reverences to believe, that I mean good, honest, devilish tight, hard knots, made bona fide, as Obadiah made his; […]

Let thinking people, then, judge what must be the fate of a church, whose fundamental doctrines are disbelieved by men of sense and inquiry, whose articles are well known not to be subscribed bonâ fide by those who officiate in it […].

Although he failed, the prime minister made a bona fide attempt to repair the nation's damaged economy.

It is impossible to say how far this adherence to a creed is a bona fide reversion to a devout habit of mind, and how far it is to be classed as a case of protective mimicry assumed for the purpose of an outward assimilation to canons of reputability borrowed from foreign ideals.

This is a bona fide Roman coin.

To Billy Byrne, then, Pesita was a real general, and Billy, himself, a bona fide captain.

What intrigues us is what will happen when the ersatzes for the ersatzes come along. Will characters start substituting for actors, bona fide dogs for barking ladies; will people start looking at people again instead of television and at nature instead of at documentaries?

Ulysses Everett McGill: I am the only daddy you got! I’m the damn pater familias! Wharvey Gal: But you ain’t bona fide!