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Definition of Good authority
1. Noun. Testimony by someone who should know. "I have it on good authority"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Good Authority
Literary usage of Good authority
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the by James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1888)
"... as an instance how one may be deceived by what is apparently very good authority.
But, as I am still persuaded, that as I might have obtained the truth, ..."
2. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"... with all deference to Dr. Carpenter's " good authority " can »«0/ be evaded
by a "dodge"—were useless, and that in spite of them Eva Fay cheated me ? ..."
3. Niles' Weekly Register edited by Hezekiah Niles, Jeremiah Hughes, George Beatty (1835)
"We are told, upon good authority, that lee- sons of humility are sometimes
serviceable, if so, ... good authority ..."
4. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1792)
"... was all one with the principal cafe there, which was afterwards ruled per Cur.
as is here ; and fo this is a good authority that it is performed.] [6. ..."
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