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n.
A pretender; a claimant.
n.
The act of pretending; pretense.
v. i.
To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham; as, to pretend to be asleep.
n.
One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre; a witling.
n.
Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity; especially, outward or artificial saintliness; assumed or pretended holiness; hypocritical devoutness.
imp. & p. p.
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n.
Actual; not counterfeit, adulterated, or pretended; genuine; pure; real; as, true balsam; true love of country; a true Christian.
n.
One who pretends to, or is addicted to, theurgy.
a.
False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham fight.
a.
Desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be; as, a would-be poet.
n.
The pretender (Eng. Hist.), 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.
n.
A pretender or quack in theology.
n.
One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer.
n.
A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness.
v. t.
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.
n.
One who pretends, simulates, or feigns.
n.
The character, right, or claim of a pretender.
a.
Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend.
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One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking.
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