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bona fide

adjective/ˌbəʊnə ˈfaɪdi/

B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

Made or done in good faith, without fraud or deception.

He was a bona fide purchaser for value and took the property free of the earlier charge.

Similar: genuine, in good faith

Topic: Legal Latin in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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