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▪ I. preˈtending, vbl. n.
[f. pretend v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb pretend; pretence; esp. the making of a profession or false show.
1647Clarendon Contempl. Ps. Tracts (1727) 405 A pretending to do that which I do not do, or to be that I am not, being..a lie in action. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. ii, When the pretending of religion grows to be a thing in request, many betake themselves to a form of religion, who deny the power of it. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. ii. i, There's no pretending about my sister.
▪ II. preˈtending, ppl. a.
[f. pretend v. + -ing2.]
That pretends, in various senses of the vb.; esp. making mere professions; pretentious. Also (in senses 3 d, 15 b of the vb.), of a thing or action: imitative, imaginary; of a game, etc.: that involves pretence or imitation. Cf. pretend n. 2 above.
c1400Apol. Loll. 20 [The curse] be wilke þe iust man be cursid as contrari to Godds lawe, þat is but only in name or pretendand. 1657Owen Commun. w. God Wks. 1851 II. 258 The pretending spirit of our day. 1727De Foe Syst. Magic i. iv. (1840) 105 Things out of the reach of the most pretending of the rest of his fellow-magicians. c1815Fuseli in Lect. Paint. vi. (1848) 489 Correggio's numerous pretending imitators. 1842J. Wilson Chr. North (1857) I. 254 Remembered when more pretending edifices are forgotten. a1901C. M. Yonge Autobiogr. in C. Coleridge C. M. Yonge (1903) iii. 95 They were not perfect playmates, for they called all ‘pretending games’ falsehood. 1960Times 27 Apr. 1/3 Only a proper castle, not an 18th/19th-century Gothic pretending one. 1965Vogue Aug. 64 Pretendin' racoon, pretty as a picture.
Hence preˈtendingly adv.; † preˈtendingness.
1648J. Goodwin Right & Might 2 Many pretendingly complain of want of conscience. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. i. (1703) 2, I have a particular reason to look a little pretendingly at present. 1701― M. Aurel. (1726) 135 No man could charge him with vanity, flourish, and pretendingness. 1834New Monthly Mag. XLI. 319 To smile, either really or pretendingly. |