- Look up
pretense in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Pretense or
pretence may
refer to:
pretext pretexting (social engineering) "Pretense" (Stargate SG-1)...
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false pretences by the
Obtaining Money by
False Pretences, etc. Act 1757, the
provisions of
which were
embodied in the
Larceny Act 1861. The
pretence must...
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pretended to,
known as an "inescutcheon of
pretence". As well as
being used by royalty, the
inescutcheon of
pretence is also used by
English aristocratic and...
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charges upon them, as
shown in the arms of the
Swedish Collegium of Arms; in
pretence (as a mark of a
hereditary claim,
usually by
right of marriage), bearing...
- individual;
numerous literary and fan
societies have been
founded on this
pretence. Avid
readers of the
Holmes stories helped create the
modern practice of...
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Andrew Noren (1943–May 2, 2015) was an
American avant-garde filmmaker.
Andrew Noren was born 1943 in
Santa Fe, New
Mexico and grew up in
Southern California...
- Russia.
Although she has used
Grand Duchess of
Russia as her
title of
pretence with the
style Imperial Highness throughout her life, her
right to do so...
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United Kingdom in 1876,
meaning that the Duke
holds three dukedoms—plus, in
pretence, the
French Duchy of Aubigny-sur-Nère.
Prior to the
creation of the dukedom...
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basically the same as that of many
forms of kissing. The air kiss is a
pretence of kissing: the lips are
pursed as if kissing, but
without actually touching...
- quasi-king; the
difference was that he
managed the
bureaucracy on the
pretence that
Edward had ****umed full sovereignty,
whereas Somerset had ****erted...
