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OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE IMAGE WAS CHECKED.
The Gallica page image was directly inspected. It verifies the unaccented 1694 French dictionary headword SINCERE and its opening definition; it is not claimed as the earliest French or English occurrence.
French1694established
sincère
The first edition of the Académie française dictionary prints SINCERE as a headword and opens with the senses true and frank.
“SINCERE. adj. de t. g. Veritable, franc, qui est sans artifice, sans deguisement.”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Printed book
- YEAR
- 1694
- LOCATOR
- First edition, tome 2, printed page 480, Gallica leaf f488, lower left column
- REPOSITORY
- Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France; digitized by BnF Gallica
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- ark:/12148/bpt6k1280391q, f. 488
- FACSIMILE
- Linked below
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- Yes
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERsincere ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 22 ↗
NAMED SOURCELe dictionnaire de l'Académie française. Tome 2 (M–Z), première édition ↗OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
INSPECTED FACSIMILEOPEN OBJECT ↗
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REPEATABLE VISUAL REVIEW
THE INSPECTION LEDGER
OBSERVED FORMSINCERE
“SINCERE. adj. de t. g. Veritable, franc, qui est sans artifice, sans deguisement.”
- INSPECTION DATE
- 2026-08-26
- METHOD
- visual facsimile
- INSPECTOR ROLE
- SET-U editorial review
- EXACT LOCATOR
- First edition, tome 2, printed page 480, Gallica leaf f488, lower left column
- CLAIM LIMIT
- Verifies the unaccented 1694 French dictionary headword SINCERE and its opening definition. It does not establish the earliest French or English occurrence.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Le dictionnaire de l'Académie française. Tome 2 (M–Z), première édition
- AUTHOR
- Académie française
- YEAR
- 1694
- PUBLISHER
- Jean-Baptiste Coignard
- SOURCE TYPE
- digitized primary source
- CITATION KEY
- daf-1694-t2-gallica