Definition of pretend

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Pretend (v. t.) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden..

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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..
Wiseling :: Wiseling (n.) One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre; a witling.
Quack :: Quack (a.) Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor..
Pretendant :: Pretendant (n.) A pretender; a claimant.
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..
Assentation :: Assentation (n.) Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence..
Psilosopher :: Psilosopher (n.) A superficial or narrow pretender to philosophy; a sham philosopher.
Quack :: Quack (n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
Connive :: Connive (v. t.) To shut the eyes to; to overlook; to pretend not to see.
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..
Pansophical :: Pansophical (a.) All-wise; claiming universal knowledge; as, pansophical pretenders..
Reformalize :: Reformalize (v. i.) To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
Pythonic :: Pythonic (a.) Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events.
Ignoramus :: Ignoramus (n.) A stupid, ignorant person; a vain pretender to knowledge; a dunce..
Feigner :: Feigner (n.) One who feigns or pretends.
Affected :: Affected (p. p. & a.) Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real.
Philosophist :: Philosophist (n.) A pretender in philosophy.
Politicaster :: Politicaster (n.) A petty politician; a pretender in politics.
Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To hold before one; to extend.
Theurgist :: Theurgist (n.) One who pretends to, or is addicted to, theurgy..
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