Pretence vs. Pretense

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Pretencenoun

(British spelling) An act of pretending or pretension; a false claim or pretext.

Pretencenoun

(obsolete) Intention; design.

Pretencenoun

See Pretense, Pretenseful, Pretenseless.

Pretencenoun

a false or unsupportable quality

Pretencenoun

an artful or simulated semblance;

Pretencenoun

pretending with intention to deceive

Pretencenoun

imaginative intellectual play

Pretencenoun

the act of giving a false appearance;

Pretencenoun

an attempt to make something that is not the case appear true

Pretencenoun

a false display of feelings, attitudes, or intentions

Pretencenoun

the practice of inventing imaginary situations in play

Pretencenoun

affected and ostentatious speech and behaviour

Pretencenoun

a claim to have a particular skill or quality

Pretensenoun

(US) A false or hypocritical profession

Pretensenoun

Intention or purpose not real but professed.

Pretensenoun

An unsupported claim made or implied.

Pretensenoun

An insincere attempt to reach a specific condition or quality.

Pretensenoun

The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption; pretension.

Pretensenoun

The act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging Cæsar's death.

Pretensenoun

That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint.

Pretensenoun

Intention; design.

Pretensenoun

the act of giving a false appearance;

Pretensenoun

pretending with intention to deceive

Pretensenoun

imaginative intellectual play

Pretensenoun

a false or unsupportable quality

Pretensenoun

an artful or simulated semblance;

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