Definition of pretend

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Pretend (v. t.) To hold before one; to extend.

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Feigner :: Feigner (n.) One who feigns or pretends.
Pretence :: Pretence (n.) That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint..
Affected :: Affected (p. p. & a.) Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real.
Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To act the part of a quack, or pretender..
Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.
Pretended :: Pretended (imp. & p. p.) of Preten.
Duplicity :: Duplicity (n.) Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith..
Theurgist :: Theurgist (n.) One who pretends to, or is addicted to, theurgy..
Pretendingly :: Pretendingly (adv.) As by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously.
Pedant :: Pedant (n.) One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.
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..
Assumed :: Assumed (a.) Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character..
Conjurer :: Conjurer (n.) One who practices magic arts; one who pretends to act by the aid super natural power; also, one who performs feats of legerdemain or sleight of hand..
Strokesman :: Stroker (n.) One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking..
Diviner :: Diviner (n.) One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means..
Adventurer :: Adventurer (n.) A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.
Pretendership :: Pretendership (n.) The character, right, or claim of a pretender..
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..
Un- :: Un- (adv.) Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; o
Assentation :: Assentation (n.) Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence..
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