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Sanctimony :: Sanctimony (n.) Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity; especially, outward or artificial saintliness; assumed or pretended holiness; hypocritical devoutness..

Sham :: Sham (a.) False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham fight..

Paraleipsis :: Paraleipsis (n.) A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice..

Stoicity :: Stoicism (n.) A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.

Magic :: Magic (a.) A comprehensive name for all of the pretended arts which claim to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or by a mastery of secret forces in nature attained by a study of occult science, including enchantment, conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, incantation, etc..

Feigned :: Feigned (a.) Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.

Pretensed :: Pretensed (a.) Pretended; feigned.

Backare :: Backare (interj.) Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess..

Simulate :: Simulate (a.) Feigned; pretended.

Assumed :: Assumed (a.) Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character..

Pretence :: Pretence (n.) That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint..

Icon :: Icon (n.) An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.

Abelonian :: Abelonian (n.) One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel..

Pretended :: Pretended (a.) Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend..

Dogsleep :: Dogsleep (n.) Pretended sleep.

Divinity :: Divinity (a.) A pretended deity of pagans; a false god.

Necromancy :: Necromancy (n.) The art of revealing future events by means of a pretended communication with the dead; the black art; hence, magic in general; conjuration; enchantment. See Black art..

Hocuspocus :: Hocuspocus (n.) A term used by jugglers in pretended incantations.

Dudder :: Dudder (n.) A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer..

Assentation :: Assentation (n.) Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence..

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