"echt" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Penguin, page 8",
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          "ref": "2002 March 27, Buck Turgidson, “Heebetudinous”, in alt.california (Usenet)",
          "text": "And yes, that's what it's about. Some punk writing about sleeping with Ginsberg, despite their fifty-year age difference and homogenous sexuality. What's echt heebish? There's your answer. A hack fag poet and the power to plant him on playlists nationwide.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2009 January 18, Ross Douthat, “When Buckley Met Reagan”, in New York Times",
          "text": "An echt Burkean with a snob’s disdain for the contemporary Republican Party, Hart hinted at a road not taken[…].",
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        "Proper, real, genuine, true to type."
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          "sense": "genuine",
          "word": "echt"
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          "sense": "genuine",
          "word": "echt"
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          "sense": "genuine",
          "word": "aito"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "genuine",
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          "word": "ehta"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "genuine",
          "word": "echt"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "genuine",
          "word": "autentyczny"
        },
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "genuine",
          "word": "prawdziwy"
        }
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 18, Ross Douthat, “When Buckley Met Reagan”, in New York Times",
          "text": "An echt Burkean with a snob’s disdain for the contemporary Republican Party, Hart hinted at a road not taken[…].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "genuine",
      "word": "echt"
    },
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      "sense": "genuine",
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      "sense": "genuine",
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      "word": "ehta"
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "genuine",
      "word": "echt"
    },
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      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "genuine",
      "word": "autentyczny"
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      "sense": "genuine",
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