Word Meanings - PRETENSED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pretended; feigned. -- Pre*tens"ed*ly, adv.

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• PRETENDER
  The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident
• PRETENDANT
  A pretender; a claimant.
• FEIGNED
  Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false. "A feigned friend." Shak. Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. Ps. xvii. 1. -- Feign"ed*ly, adv. -- Feign"ed*ness, n. Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned
• PRETENDED
  Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend. -- Pre*tend"ed*ly, adv.
• PRETENDENCE
  The act of pretending; pretense. Daniel.
• PRETENDINGLY
  As by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously. Collier.
• FEIGNING
  That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false. -- Feign"ing*ly, adv.
• FEIGNER
  One who feigns or pretends.
• FEIGN
  figura figure,and E. dough. See Dough, and cf. Figure, Faint, Effigy, 1. To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true. There are no such things done as
• PRETENDERSHIP
  The character, right, or claim of a pretender. Swift.
• PRETEND
  praetendere, praetentum, to stretch forward, pretend, simulate, 1. To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim. Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend. Dryden. 2. To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise
• UNFEIGNED
  Not feigned; not counterfeit; not hypocritical; real; sincere; genuine; as, unfeigned piety; unfeigned love to man. "Good faith unfeigned." Chaucer. -- Un*feign"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*feign"ed*ness, n.
• MISFEIGN
  To feign with an evil design. Spenser.