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Pretendingly :: Pretendingly (adv.) As by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously.

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..

Philosophaster :: Philosophaster (n.) A pretender to philosophy.

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

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

Humble :: Humble (superl.) Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage..

Pretex :: Pretex (v. t.) To frame; to devise; to disguise or excuse; hence, to pretend; to declare falsely..

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..

Cabala :: Cabala (n.) A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediaeval Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumes that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means..

Dogsleep :: Dogsleep (n.) Pretended sleep.

Politicaster :: Politicaster (n.) A petty politician; a pretender in politics.

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..

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

Countenance :: Countenance (v. t.) To make a show of; to pretend.

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..

Cunningman :: Cunningman (n.) A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries.

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

Connive :: Connive (v. t.) To shut the eyes to; to overlook; to pretend not to see.

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

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