validity
/vəˈlɪd.ɪ.ti/ noun C1- The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
- State of having legal force.
- A quality of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure reflects the underlying construct, that is, whether it measures what it purports to measure (see reliability).
- The genuinity, as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity, of a sacrament as a result of some formal dispositions being fulfilled.
Plural validities
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“Certainly they were; supposing there were to be doubts raised as to the validity of your marriage or the legitimacy of your child?”
Illness of body would not affect the validity of the deed, but sanity of mind is absolutely requisite.”
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