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pretending
(encz) | pretending,předstírající adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Pretending
(gcide) | Pretend \Pre*tend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pretended; p. pr. &
vb. n. Pretending.] [OE. pretenden to lay claim to, F.
pr['e]tendre, L. praetendere, praetentum, to stretch forward,
pretend, simulate, assert; prae before + tendere to stretch.
See Tend, v. t. ]
1. To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.
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Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend.
--Dryden.
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2. To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for
something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.
[R.]
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Lest that too heavenly form, pretended
To hellish falsehood, snare them. --Milton.
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3. To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or
offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to
show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to
simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship.
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This let him know,
Lest, willfully transgressing, he pretend
Surprisal. --Milton.
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4. To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt. [Obs.]
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Such as shall pretend
Malicious practices against his state. --Shak.
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5. To hold before one; to extend. [Obs.] "His target always
over her pretended." --Spenser.
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pretending
(wn) | pretending
n 1: the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was
only pretending" [syn: pretense, pretence,
pretending, simulation, feigning] |
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pretending
(encz) | pretending,předstírající adj: Zdeněk Brož |
unpretending
(encz) | unpretending,skromný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Pretendingly
(gcide) | Pretendingly \Pre*tend"ing*ly\, adv.
As by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously. --Collier.
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Unpretending
(gcide) | Unpretending \Unpretending\
See pretending. |
pretending
(wn) | pretending
n 1: the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was
only pretending" [syn: pretense, pretence,
pretending, simulation, feigning] |
unpretending
(wn) | unpretending
adj 1: not ostentatious; "his unostentatious office";
"unostentatious elegance" [syn: unostentatious,
unpretentious, unpretending] [ant: ostentatious,
pretentious] |
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