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feigner|ˈfeɪnə(r)|
[f. feign v. + -er1.]
One who or that which feigns, in various senses of the vb.; † a fashioner, constructor, inventor; the contriver of a fiction (obs.); a simulator, pretender, counterfeiter.
1382Wyclif Deut. xiii. 5 That prophete or feyner of swevenes shal be slayn. c1400Apol. Loll. 85 Wat profitiþ a grauen þing? for his feynar haþ hopid in his feynid þingis. 1488Caxton Chast. Goddes Chyld. 28 In goddes sighte they ben very fyctifs feyners. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 276 Ane freir..flatterar and fenȝear. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. v. 715 The greene Parrat, fainer of our Words. 1598Ibid. ii. ii. ii. Babylon 614 The fluent fainer of Orlandos error. 1636B. Jonson Discov. Wks. (Rtldg.) 761/2 A poet is..a maker or a fainer: his art, an art of imitation, or faining. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 693 This Notion..was from the first Feigner or Inventor of it, propagated all along and conveyed down, by Oral Tradition. 1827Examiner 50/2 Either Farmers are dreadful feigners, or their present endurance cannot last long. 1863Holme Lee A. Warleigh's Fort. III. 104 She was a bad feigner. |