Definition of feign

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Feign (v. t.) To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness..

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Act :: Act (v. t.) To feign or counterfeit; to simulate.
Sincerely :: Sincerely (adv.) Honestly; unfeignedly; without dissimulation; as, to speak one's mind sincerely; to love virtue sincerely..
Schesis :: Schesis (n.) A figure of speech whereby the mental habitude of an adversary or opponent is feigned for the purpose of arguing against him.
Make-belief :: Make-belief (n.) A feigning to believe; make believe.
Pretensed :: Pretensed (a.) Pretended; feigned.
False :: False (a.) To feign; to pretend to make.
Feine :: Feine (v. t. & i.) To feign.
Lugubrious :: Lugubrious (a.) Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look..
Assimulate :: Assimulate (v. t.) To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate; to resemble.
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..
Abram-man :: Abram-man (n.) One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms..
Dissimulate :: Dissimulate (a.) Feigning; simulating; pretending.
Dissemble :: Dissemble (v. t.) To hide under a false semblance or seeming; to feign (something) not to be what it really is; to put an untrue appearance upon; to disguise; to mask.
Figment :: Figment (n.) An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
Affect :: Affect (v. t.) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance..
Feint :: Feint (a.) That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
Fabulous :: Fabulous (a.) Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero..
Feign :: Feign (v. t.) To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness..
Feign :: Feign (v. t.) To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true..
Issue :: Issue (n.) In pleading, a single material point of law or fact depending in the suit, which, being affirmed on the one side and denied on the other, is presented for determination. See General issue, under General, and Feigned issue, under Feigned..
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