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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pretend  \Pre*tend"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Pretended};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Pretending}.]  [OE.  pretenden  to  lay  claim  to  F. 
  pr['e]tendre,  L.  praetendere  praetentum  to  stretch  forward, 
  pretend,  simulate,  assert;  prae  before  +  tendere  to  stretch. 
  See  {Tend},  v.  t.  ] 
  1.  To  lay  a  claim  to  to  allege  a  title  to  to  claim. 
 
  Chiefs  shall  be  grudged  the  part  which  they  pretend. 
  --Dryden. 
 
  2.  To  hold  before  or  put  forward,  as  a  cloak  or  disguise  for 
  something  else;  to  exhibit  as  a  veil  for  something  hidden. 
  [R.] 
 
  Lest  that  too  heavenly  form  pretended  To  hellish 
  falsehood,  snare  them  --Milton. 
 
  3.  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. 
 
  This  let  him  know  Lest,  willfully  transgressing,  he 
  pretend  Surprisal.  --Milton. 
 
  4.  To  intend;  to  design;  to  plot;  to  attempt.  [Obs.] 
 
  Such  as  shall  pretend  Malicious  practices  against 
  his  state.  --Shak. 
 
  5.  To  hold  before  one  to  extend.  [Obs.]  ``His  target  always 
  over  her  pretended.''  --Spenser. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pretending 
  n  :  the  act  of  pretending  [syn:  {pretense},  {pretence},  {simulation}, 
  {feigning}] 




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