Definition of pretend

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Pretend (v. t.) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden..

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Perfectionist :: Perfectionist (n.) One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life..
Divination :: Divination (n.) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.
Cunningman :: Cunningman (n.) A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries.
False :: False (a.) To feign; to pretend to make.
Pretender :: Pretender (n.) One who pretends, simulates, or feigns..
Assumer :: Assumer (n.) One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes..
Theurgist :: Theurgist (n.) One who pretends to, or is addicted to, theurgy..
Pretend :: Pretend (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..
Pretence :: Pretence (n.) That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint..
Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor..
Dissimulate :: Dissimulate (v. i.) To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
Grammaticaster :: Grammaticaster (n.) A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender.
Simulate :: Simulate (a.) Feigned; pretended.
Feign :: Feign (v. t.) To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness..
Divinity :: Divinity (a.) A pretended deity of pagans; a false god.
Pretended :: Pretended (imp. & p. p.) of Preten.
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..
Quiz :: Quiz (v. t.) To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions..
Pretend :: Pretend (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..
Pretendant :: Pretendant (n.) A pretender; a claimant.
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