Word Meanings - PRETENSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of pretending, or laying claim; the act of asserting right or title. The arrogant pretensions of Glengarry contributed to protract the discussion. Macaulay. 2. A claim made, whether true or false; a right alleged or assumed; a holding

Additional info about word: PRETENSION

1. The act of pretending, or laying claim; the act of asserting right or title. The arrogant pretensions of Glengarry contributed to protract the discussion. Macaulay. 2. A claim made, whether true or false; a right alleged or assumed; a holding out the appearance of possessing a certain character; as, pretensions to scholarship. This was but an invention and pretension given out by the Spaniards. Bacon. Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions. L'Estrange.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRETENSION)

• Claim
• Assertion
• vindication
• pretension
• title
• right
• privilege
• arrogation
• demand
• Pretence
• Excuse
• pretext
• fabrication
• simulation
• cloak
• mask
• color
• show
• garb
• plea
• assumption
• make believe
• outside show

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PRETENSION)

• Forego
• waive
• disclaim
• abjure
• disavow
• abandon
• concede
• surrender
• repudiate

Related words: (words related to PRETENSION)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• TITLELESS
  Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer.
• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• EXCUSEMENT
  Excuse. Gower.
• TITLED
  Having or bearing a title.
• TITLER
  A large truncated cone of refined sugar.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• EXCUSE
  1. To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit. A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him
• DISAVOWMENT
  Disavowal. Wotton.
• DISAVOWER
  One who disavows.
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• EXCUSER
  1. One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another. Swift. 2. One who excuses or forgives another. Shelton.
• OUTSIDER
  1. One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling. A. Trollope. 2. A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the
• RIGHT-ANGLED
  Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
• VINDICATION
  The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing. Burrill. (more info) 1. The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of
• RIGHTEOUS
  Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton.
• FOREGO
  1. To quit; to relinquish; to leave. Stay at the third cup, or forego the place. Herbert. 2. To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up; to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach,
• BRIGHT
  See I
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• RECLAIMER
  One who reclaims.
• ACCLAIM
  1. To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson. 2. To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett. 3. To shout; as, to acclaim my joy.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• SHRIGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer.
• REDEMAND
  To demand back; to demand again.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from