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

Pretender :: Pretender (n.) One who pretends, simulates, or feigns..

Cultrivorous :: Cultrivorous (a.) Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity..

Diviner :: Diviner (n.) One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means..

Pretending :: Pretending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Preten.

True :: True (n.) Actual; not counterfeit, adulterated, or pretended; genuine; pure; real; as, true balsam; true love of country; a true Christian..

Spurious :: Spurious (a.) Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate..

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

Pyromantic :: Pyromantic (n.) One who pretends to divine by fire.

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..

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

Pretendant :: Pretendant (n.) A pretender; a claimant.

Catharist :: Catharist (n.) One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.

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

Adventurer :: Adventurer (n.) A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.

Affecter :: Affecter (n.) One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after..

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

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..

Pretender :: Pretender (n.) One who lays claim, or asserts a title (to something); a claimant..

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

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