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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,
refers to the
changing of one's behaviour...
-
Everyone Who
Pretended to Like Me Is Gone is the
debut studio album by the
American indie rock band The Walkmen,
released on
March 26, 2002, on Startime...
- 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...
-
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...
- the
Oprichnina and
disbanded his oprichniki. In 1575, Ivan once
again pretended to
resign from his
title and
proclaimed Simeon Bekbulatovich, his statesman...
- the 1997 case of a
French confidence trickster Frédéric Bourdin, who
pretended to be
Nicholas Patrick Barclay, an
American boy who had
disappeared in...
- was 15-16
years old, she was sent from
Lithuania by an
older man who
pretended to be her boyfriend. He
promised her a job as a
berry picker in Sweden...
- 51/46a:
Scores at the
International Music Score Library Project The
Pretended Simpleton. List of
characters and
mention of
first performance in 1769...
-
woods with
InoShikaCho around a campfire. Goku
realizes that they only
pretended to kill the
monster to get money. The three-e****
stranger fights Goku...
- stars. Calderón de la
Barca wrote the 1641
comedy Astrologo Fingido (The
Pretended Astrologer); the plot was
borrowed by the
French playwright Thomas Corneille...
