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PretendedPretended Pre*tend"ed, a.
Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended
friend. -- Pre*tend"ed*ly, adv. Pretend
Pretend Pre*tend", v. i.
1. To put in, or make, a claim, truly or falsely; to allege a
title; to lay claim to, or strive after, something; --
usually with to. ``Countries that pretend to freedom.'
--Swift.
For to what fine he would anon pretend, That know I
well. --Chaucer.
2. 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. ``[He] pretended to
drink the waters.' --Macaulay.
Meaning of Pretended from wikipedia
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Pretending or
Pretend may
refer to Role-playing, the act of
changing of one's behaviour...
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Everyone Who
Pretended to Like Me Is Gone is the
debut studio album by the
American rock band the Walkmen,
released on
March 26, 2002, by
Startime International...
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Treason of
Elizabeth Barton (
Pretended Revelations) Act 1533 Act of
Parliament Parliament of
England Long
title An Act
concerning the
Attainder of Elizabeth...
- Islands,
Mexico and Chile). A
variant of this story,
entitled The Girl Who
Pretended to be a Boy, was
published in 1901 in
Andrew Lang’s The
Violet Fairy Book...
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Count approaches Sandrina but she
again denies him. She
claims to have
pretended to be the
Marchioness to save him, and exits.
Serpetta arrives moments...
- 51/46a:
Scores at the
International Music Score Library Project The
Pretended Simpleton. List of
characters and
mention of
first performance in 1769...
- The
Rescissory Act 1661 or Act
rescinding and
annulling the
pretended parliaments in the
years 1640, 1641 etc. was
added to the
Scottish Parliamentary...
- the 1997 case of a
French confidence trickster Frédéric Bourdin, who
pretended to be
Nicholas Patrick Barclay, an
American boy who had
disappeared in...
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Omphalopsychians by J.G. Millingen,
writing in the 1830s, who says they "...
pretended or
fancied that they
experienced celestial joys when
gazing on
their umbilical...
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alive 27 days 1978
Harry Domela 78
Unknown Latvian-German
impostor who
pretended to be a
deposed crown prince, for
which he
would be put on trial, but...
