Sentence examples for of doubtful authenticity from inspiring English sources

Of these numerous records and writings of old law, many had become scarce or had been lost altogether, and some were of doubtful authenticity.

Apart from the works mentioned, there are also 12 single ballades and rondeaux (basically 13-line poems with a sophisticated double rhyme pattern), another 4 of doubtful authenticity, and 7 ballades in jargon and jobelin the slang of the day.

Among the more-important works that are of doubtful authenticity or are clearly apocryphal are the Consolatio to Apollonius for his son, the "Lives of the Ten Orators," "On Fate," the "Short Sayings of Kings and Commanders," the "Short Sayings of Spartans," and "Proverbs of the Alexandrines".

There is debate on this point, however, as several of the charters in which Offa is named "Rex Anglorum" are of doubtful authenticity.

A story of doubtful authenticity tells how he refused to crown King Harold Harefoot, as he had promised Cnut to crown none but a son of the king by his wife, Emma.

In his view, Cliff and Delaney "assume the veracity and authenticity of sources of doubtful authorship and unreliable date" and make the mistake of taking Columbus at his word although he was notoriously disingenuous.

(Recall the role of doubtful irrelevant proposita in a positio).

More recently in North Korea, scenes of people weeping and breaking down following the death of Kim Jong-il in 2011 left some in the West doubtful of the authenticity of those emotions.

He seeks a kind of relentless authenticity.

(That word means "of questionable authenticity").

The concept of 'planned authenticity' is introduced.