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Preterition :: Preterition (n.) A figure by which, in pretending to pass over anything, a summary mention of it is made; as, I will not say, he is valiant, he is learned, he is just. Called also paraleipsis..

Dissimulate :: Dissimulate (v. i.) To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.

Wiseling :: Wiseling (n.) One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre; a witling.

Intend :: Intend (v. t.) To pretend; to counterfeit; to simulate.

Simular :: Simular (n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who, or that which, simulates or counterfeits something; a pretender..

Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.

Obtend :: Obtend (v. t.) To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend.

Corival :: Corival (v. t.) To rival; to pretend to equal.

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

Bushwhacker :: Bushwhacker (n.) A guerrilla; a marauding assassin; one who pretends to be a peaceful citizen, but secretly harasses a hostile force or its sympathizers..

Pedant :: Pedant (n.) One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.

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..

Would-be :: Would-be (a.) Desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be; as, a would-be poet..

Pretendence :: Pretendence (n.) The act of pretending; pretense.

Pythonic :: Pythonic (a.) Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events.

Pretendership :: Pretendership (n.) The character, right, or claim of a pretender..

Soi-disant :: Soi-disant (a.) Calling himself; self-styled; pretended; would-be.

Psilosopher :: Psilosopher (n.) A superficial or narrow pretender to philosophy; a sham philosopher.

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..

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

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