Word Meanings - PRETENDENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of pretending; pretense. Daniel.

PRETENDER
The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident
PRETENDANT
A pretender; a claimant.
PRETENSELESS
Not having or making pretenses.
PRETENDED
Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend. -- Pre*tend"ed*ly, adv.
PRETENDENCE
The act of pretending; pretense. Daniel.
PRETENSED
Pretended; feigned. -- Pre*tens"ed*ly, adv.
PRETENDINGLY
As by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously. Collier.
PRETENSEFUL
Abounding in pretenses.
PRETENSE; PRETENCE
1. The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption; pretension. Spenser. Primogeniture can not have any pretense to a right of solely inheriting property or power. Locke. I went to Lambeth with Sir R. Brown's pretense to the wardenship
DANIEL
A Hebrew prophet distinguished for sagacity and ripeness of judgment in youth; hence, a sagacious and upright judge. A Daniel come to judgment. Shak.
PRETENDERSHIP
The character, right, or claim of a pretender. Swift.
PRETEND
praetendere, praetentum, to stretch forward, pretend, simulate, 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