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4 lettersPronunciation /ɛkt/Part of speech adjectiveSorted cehtStarts with EEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. not fake or counterfeit

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • I had heard [the phrase] in Lamb House, Rye, but it was less echt Henry James than Henry James mocking echt Meredith.
  • An echt Burkean with a snob’s disdain for the contemporary Republican Party, Hart hinted at a road not taken[…].

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