authentify

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authentify

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Back-formation from authentification, itself an alteration of authentication.

verb authentifies · authentifying · authentified

To authenticate. Then the device has to "phone" with the infrastructure of the supermarket, and must authentify the owner of the device in order to step forward the reading of the card.

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"authentify." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/authentify. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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authentify. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/authentify

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"authentify." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/authentify.

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@misc{authentify_2026,
  title = {authentify},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/authentify},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}