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n.
One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre; a witling.
n.
One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Pretend
a.
Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend.
n.
A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness.
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Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity; especially, outward or artificial saintliness; assumed or pretended holiness; hypocritical devoutness.
n.
A pretender; a claimant.
n.
One who pretends, simulates, or feigns.
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.
Actual; not counterfeit, adulterated, or pretended; genuine; pure; real; as, true balsam; true love of country; a true Christian.
a.
False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham fight.
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.
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Desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be; as, a would-be poet.
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n.
The act of pretending; pretense.
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.
The character, right, or claim of a pretender.
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One who pretends to, or is addicted to, theurgy.
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One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer.
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