pretendedadj.

Brit.

/prᵻˈtɛndᵻd/, U.S.

/priˈtɛndəd/,

/prəˈtɛndəd/

Forms: see pretend v. and -ed suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pretend v., -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < pretend v. + -ed suffix¹.

a. Of a title or designation: not valid, spurious; (of a person or thing bearing such a title or designation) spuriously entitled; so-called, self-styled. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective] > feigned, fictitious

falsea1175

feignedc1386

pretenced1425

pretended1461

counterfeit1530

personate1565

sham1683

personated1711

fictitiousa1781

pretence1853

society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [adjective] > not having certain privileges > having no rightful claim or unentitled > to a title or designation

pretenced1425

pretended1461

1461 Rolls of Parl. V. 490/2 Almanere Licences yeven..by any of the seid late pretended Kynges.

1497 in G. Neilson & H. Paton Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1918) II. 74 Robert of Cunynghame, pretendit schiref of Striveling, for his pretendit and wrangus process.

c1500 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1903) I. 96 The saide Erle hathe seased the body of your saide Oratoure by reason of his pretended title.

1564 T. Stapleton tr. F. Staphylus Apologie Pref. 7 Amonge the pretended bishops of oure countre it is well knowen that some allowe the order of priesthood.

c1592 F. Bacon Disc. Q. Elizabeth in G. Ungerer Spaniard in Elizabethan Eng. (1974) I. 48 The Church of Roome, that pretended appostolick sea is become but a donatiue Cell of the Kinge of Spaine.

1640 in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright 27 June (1855) 4 The woode and bark thairof, quhilk pertaines to the pretendit bischope of Edinburgh.

1683 Apol. Protestants France iv. 52 The Edict..allowed the Protestants the free exercise of their Religion, which..was to be called The Pretended Reformed Religion.

1688 G. Burnet Let. 25 Dec. in Eng. Hist. Rev. July (1886) 535 That this Assembly is to Judge..the birth of the Pretended Prince.

1709–10 R. Steele Tatler No. 115. ⁋1 One Isaac Bickerstaff, a Pretended Esquire.

1776 T. Paine Common Sense iii. 47 Disdain the wretch, that with the pretended title of father of his people can unfeelingly hear of their slaughter.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxv. 494 He commanded them, with a loud voice, to seize and deliver up their pretended leader.

1889 J. P. Mahaffy & J. H. Bernard Kant's Crit. Philos. for Eng. Readers (new ed.) i. 3 No sooner had the descent of the pretended queen been traced to the low origin of common experience..than this genealogy was found out to be fictitious, and accordingly she persisted in her claims.

1916 Sandusky (Ohio) Star-Jrnl. 10 June 2/1 The president of the United States would enter into a bargain with the pretended ruler of an unruled tribe of savages.

2000 Painful, Truth in alt.fan.jesus-christ (Usenet newsgroup) 7 Apr. It was under this name that he published his manifesto of pretended King-Messiah, his Revelation.

b. gen. Falsely alleged; invalid, non-existent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [adjective]

pretended1489

Oudemian streeta1586

not-being1594

unbeing1607

inexistent1646

non-existent1646

insubsistent1654

unented1657

unexistenta1682

non-existing1743

null1762

unexisting1785

nullibiquitous1820

non-entitous1831

beingless1835

non-entitive1872

non-entitative1889

nil1937

1489 in T. Thomson Acts Lords Auditors (1839) 145/2 Becaus all the personis contenit in the said pretendit decrett wes nocht lymmitt..be the thre estatis.

1564 in Scott. Antiq. Oct. (1901) 80 The makyng and compulsit grantyng of the said pretendit infeftment.

c1626 H. Bisset Rolment Courtis (1922) II. 185 Johnne Balyoll usurpare pretendand him to be the..Scottis king began his pretendit regnne.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Westmorl. 140 A railing Jesuit wrote a pretended confutation thereof.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1679 (1955) IV. 187 Shewing with how little reason the Papists applied those words..to maintaine the pretended Infallibility they boast of.

1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 68 Dr. Barnes was prior, who was burnt for pretended heresy.

1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. v. 153 A stranger instance..of the daring variation of pretended symmetry.

1983 W. N. Rowe Clapp's Rock x. 142 Instead of resigning with grace, once I had privately disclosed to him my knowledge of his pilfering from the public chest, he now seeks to cover his vile breach of public trust with a tissue of state matters of pretended public importance.

1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 June 55/2 The ‘new musicologists’..deplore the pretended autonomy of traditional musicological studies.

c. Put forward as a defence, excuse, or pretext; professed falsely or insincerely. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > [adjective] > of motives or purposes: ostensible > put forward as a pretext

pretended1489

pretenced1535

pretexted1606

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > false assertion > [adjective]

pretended1489

misalleged1620

vamped1714

trumped-up1728

whipped1900

1489 Charter Edinb. Reg. House No. 545 A That thar is a pretendit intrusione callit sessing gevin be ȝow.

1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 17 The pretended reason of it [is] as frigid as frigidity it self.

1695 Enq. Anc. Const. Eng. Pref. 7 Sacrificing (under the will-worship of a pretended loyalty) the religion, civil Liberties and properties of their country to Cæsar's will.

?1787 G. F. Raymond Hist. Eng. iv. vi. 81/1 This pretended loyalty, the effect of fear, did not satisfy Edward.

1873 H. Rogers Superhuman Origin Bible (1875) i. 33 They..made the pretended service of God a reason for evading the most sacred obligations.

2. Feigned; spurious; counterfeit, forged.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective]

fainta1340

counterfeit1393

pretense1395

feinta1400

feigned1413

disguisyc1430

colourable1433

pretending1434

simulate1435

dissimuled1475

simulative1490

coloureda1500

dissimulate?a1500

simuled1526

colorate1528

dissembled1539

mock1548

devised1552

pretended?1553

artificial1564

supposed1566

counterfeited1569

supposing?1574

affecteda1586

pretensive1607

false1609

supposite1611

simulara1616

simulatory1618

simulated1622

put-ona1625

ironic1631

ironical1646

devisable1659

pretensional1659

pretenced1660

pretensory1663

vizarded1663

shammed?c1677

sham1681

faux1684

fictitious1739

ostensible1762

made-up1773

mala fide1808

assumed1813

semblative1814

fictioned1820

pretextual1837

pseudo1854

fictive1855

schlenter1881

faked1890

phoney1893

phantom1897

?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) iii. l. 2036 in Shorter Poems (1967) 126 Quhilkis be wilfull manyfest Arrogance Inuyus pryde, pretendit Ignorance, Fowle dowbilnes..Enforcis thaym thair seluyn til auance.

1588 A. Fraunce Arcadian Rhetorike i. vi. sig. A8 A kinde of Ironia..of pretended omitting or letting slip of that which indeed wee elegantly note out in the verie shewe of prætermission, as when we say; I let this passe.

1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron I. iii. iii. f. 88^v In a pretended rage, shee returned backe from the ghostly Father.

1666 R. Boyle Let. 9 Mar. in Corr. (2001) III. 100 If the pretended Miracles of Pyrrhus & Vespasian had bin watchd & considerd by Mr Stubbe as narrowly as those of Mr Greaterick have bin, you would have found at least as much reason to ascribe Their Cures, as His, to Phisicall causes.

1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 193 Thy pretended craziness, thou makest use of to blind the Court withal, and as a cloak to cover thy Knavery.

1727 J. Gay Fables I. xvii. 56 An open foe may prove a curse, But a pretended friend is worse.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia II. iii. viii. 111 With a pretended laugh, he hastily left her.

a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. v. 92 Anne was obliged to turn away, to rise, to walk to a distant table, and, leaning there in pretended employment, try to subdue her feelings this picture excited.

1850 H. Melville White-jacket lxxvii. 385 Pretended invalids will submit to this dismal hospital durance, in order to escape hard work and wet jackets.

1884 D. Hunter tr. E. Reuss Hist. Canon xiii. 264 A pretended Confession of Faith, dated 1120, which is now known to be forged, at least antedated, and to belong at the earliest to the year 1532.

1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn xvi. 219 She kept drawing out her cigarette with little pouts and nose wriggles and pretended sneezes.

1979 J. Wainwright Brainwash xxxvii. 157 ‘Good Lord!’ Lyle's pretended surprise was an open mockery.

1993 W. Baldwin Hard to catch Mercy x. 320 The old woman tapped her temple with a fingertip, and then spoke with a pretended hesitancy.

†3. Intended, proposed. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > intention > [adjective] > relating to intention or purpose > intended or purposed

purposed?a1425

pretenced1543

pretended1573

meditated1588

meant1590

intended1592

contemplated1657

intending1788

would-be1813

1573 New Custome i. i. sig. Aiv^v For the better accomplishing our subtlety pretended, It were expedient that bothe our names were amended.

1578 G. Best True Disc. Passage to Cathaya i. 46 Two small Barkes..wherein hee intended to accomplish his pretended voyage.

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. Author's Pref. 2 Therbye to attayne vnto his pretended intente.

a1617 J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1827) 14 The twa Scotis scollairs never obtenit payement fra the bischop for ther pretendit fraud.

1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. lxxiii The suffering Populace, whose pretended Forfeitures were granted before Conviction.

1703 D. Defoe Reasons against War Misc. 194 That we should..be Insulted by the French in the Article of the pretended New King [of Spain].

†4. Put forward for consideration or acceptance. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1646 T. Gataker Mistake Removed To Rdr. 1 A bush sufficient of itself to invite to such pretious pretended liquor.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pretended
释义	pretendedadj. Brit. /prᵻˈtɛndᵻd/, U.S. /priˈtɛndəd/, /prəˈtɛndəd/ Forms: see pretend v. and -ed suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pretend v., -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < pretend v. + -ed suffix¹. 1. a. Of a title or designation: not valid, spurious; (of a person or thing bearing such a title or designation) spuriously entitled; so-called, self-styled. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective] > feigned, fictitious falsea1175 feignedc1386 pretenced1425 pretended1461 counterfeit1530 personate1565 sham1683 personated1711 fictitiousa1781 pretence1853 society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [adjective] > not having certain privileges > having no rightful claim or unentitled > to a title or designation pretenced1425 pretended1461 1461 Rolls of Parl. V. 490/2 Almanere Licences yeven..by any of the seid late pretended Kynges. 1497 in G. Neilson & H. Paton Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1918) II. 74 Robert of Cunynghame, pretendit schiref of Striveling, for his pretendit and wrangus process. c1500 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1903) I. 96 The saide Erle hathe seased the body of your saide Oratoure by reason of his pretended title. 1564 T. Stapleton tr. F. Staphylus Apologie Pref. 7 Amonge the pretended bishops of oure countre it is well knowen that some allowe the order of priesthood. c1592 F. Bacon Disc. Q. Elizabeth in G. Ungerer Spaniard in Elizabethan Eng. (1974) I. 48 The Church of Roome, that pretended appostolick sea is become but a donatiue Cell of the Kinge of Spaine. 1640 in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright 27 June (1855) 4 The woode and bark thairof, quhilk pertaines to the pretendit bischope of Edinburgh. 1683 Apol. Protestants France iv. 52 The Edict..allowed the Protestants the free exercise of their Religion, which..was to be called The Pretended Reformed Religion. 1688 G. Burnet Let. 25 Dec. in Eng. Hist. Rev. July (1886) 535 That this Assembly is to Judge..the birth of the Pretended Prince. 1709–10 R. Steele Tatler No. 115. ⁋1 One Isaac Bickerstaff, a Pretended Esquire. 1776 T. Paine Common Sense iii. 47 Disdain the wretch, that with the pretended title of father of his people can unfeelingly hear of their slaughter. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxv. 494 He commanded them, with a loud voice, to seize and deliver up their pretended leader. 1889 J. P. Mahaffy & J. H. Bernard Kant's Crit. Philos. for Eng. Readers (new ed.) i. 3 No sooner had the descent of the pretended queen been traced to the low origin of common experience..than this genealogy was found out to be fictitious, and accordingly she persisted in her claims. 1916 Sandusky (Ohio) Star-Jrnl. 10 June 2/1 The president of the United States would enter into a bargain with the pretended ruler of an unruled tribe of savages. 2000 Painful, Truth in alt.fan.jesus-christ (Usenet newsgroup) 7 Apr. It was under this name that he published his manifesto of pretended King-Messiah, his Revelation. b. gen. Falsely alleged; invalid, non-existent. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [adjective] pretended1489 Oudemian streeta1586 not-being1594 unbeing1607 inexistent1646 non-existent1646 insubsistent1654 unented1657 unexistenta1682 non-existing1743 null1762 unexisting1785 nullibiquitous1820 non-entitous1831 beingless1835 non-entitive1872 non-entitative1889 nil1937 1489 in T. Thomson Acts Lords Auditors (1839) 145/2 Becaus all the personis contenit in the said pretendit decrett wes nocht lymmitt..be the thre estatis. 1564 in Scott. Antiq. Oct. (1901) 80 The makyng and compulsit grantyng of the said pretendit infeftment. c1626 H. Bisset Rolment Courtis (1922) II. 185 Johnne Balyoll usurpare pretendand him to be the..Scottis king began his pretendit regnne. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Westmorl. 140 A railing Jesuit wrote a pretended confutation thereof. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1679 (1955) IV. 187 Shewing with how little reason the Papists applied those words..to maintaine the pretended Infallibility they boast of. 1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 68 Dr. Barnes was prior, who was burnt for pretended heresy. 1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. v. 153 A stranger instance..of the daring variation of pretended symmetry. 1983 W. N. Rowe Clapp's Rock x. 142 Instead of resigning with grace, once I had privately disclosed to him my knowledge of his pilfering from the public chest, he now seeks to cover his vile breach of public trust with a tissue of state matters of pretended public importance. 1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 June 55/2 The ‘new musicologists’..deplore the pretended autonomy of traditional musicological studies. c. Put forward as a defence, excuse, or pretext; professed falsely or insincerely. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > [adjective] > of motives or purposes: ostensible > put forward as a pretext pretended1489 pretenced1535 pretexted1606 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > false assertion > [adjective] pretended1489 misalleged1620 vamped1714 trumped-up1728 whipped1900 1489 Charter Edinb. Reg. House No. 545 A That thar is a pretendit intrusione callit sessing gevin be ȝow. 1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 17 The pretended reason of it [is] as frigid as frigidity it self. 1695 Enq. Anc. Const. Eng. Pref. 7 Sacrificing (under the will-worship of a pretended loyalty) the religion, civil Liberties and properties of their country to Cæsar's will. ?1787 G. F. Raymond Hist. Eng. iv. vi. 81/1 This pretended loyalty, the effect of fear, did not satisfy Edward. 1873 H. Rogers Superhuman Origin Bible (1875) i. 33 They..made the pretended service of God a reason for evading the most sacred obligations. 2. Feigned; spurious; counterfeit, forged. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective] fainta1340 counterfeit1393 pretense1395 feinta1400 feigned1413 disguisyc1430 colourable1433 pretending1434 simulate1435 dissimuled1475 simulative1490 coloureda1500 dissimulate?a1500 simuled1526 colorate1528 dissembled1539 mock1548 devised1552 pretended?1553 artificial1564 supposed1566 counterfeited1569 supposing?1574 affecteda1586 pretensive1607 false1609 supposite1611 simulara1616 simulatory1618 simulated1622 put-ona1625 ironic1631 ironical1646 devisable1659 pretensional1659 pretenced1660 pretensory1663 vizarded1663 shammed?c1677 sham1681 faux1684 fictitious1739 ostensible1762 made-up1773 mala fide1808 assumed1813 semblative1814 fictioned1820 pretextual1837 pseudo1854 fictive1855 schlenter1881 faked1890 phoney1893 phantom1897 ?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) iii. l. 2036 in Shorter Poems (1967) 126 Quhilkis be wilfull manyfest Arrogance Inuyus pryde, pretendit Ignorance, Fowle dowbilnes..Enforcis thaym thair seluyn til auance. 1588 A. Fraunce Arcadian Rhetorike i. vi. sig. A8 A kinde of Ironia..of pretended omitting or letting slip of that which indeed wee elegantly note out in the verie shewe of prætermission, as when we say; I let this passe. 1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron I. iii. iii. f. 88^v In a pretended rage, shee returned backe from the ghostly Father. 1666 R. Boyle Let. 9 Mar. in Corr. (2001) III. 100 If the pretended Miracles of Pyrrhus & Vespasian had bin watchd & considerd by Mr Stubbe as narrowly as those of Mr Greaterick have bin, you would have found at least as much reason to ascribe Their Cures, as His, to Phisicall causes. 1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 193 Thy pretended craziness, thou makest use of to blind the Court withal, and as a cloak to cover thy Knavery. View more context for this quotation 1727 J. Gay Fables I. xvii. 56 An open foe may prove a curse, But a pretended friend is worse. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia II. iii. viii. 111 With a pretended laugh, he hastily left her. a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. v. 92 Anne was obliged to turn away, to rise, to walk to a distant table, and, leaning there in pretended employment, try to subdue her feelings this picture excited. View more context for this quotation 1850 H. Melville White-jacket lxxvii. 385 Pretended invalids will submit to this dismal hospital durance, in order to escape hard work and wet jackets. 1884 D. Hunter tr. E. Reuss Hist. Canon xiii. 264 A pretended Confession of Faith, dated 1120, which is now known to be forged, at least antedated, and to belong at the earliest to the year 1532. 1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn xvi. 219 She kept drawing out her cigarette with little pouts and nose wriggles and pretended sneezes. 1979 J. Wainwright Brainwash xxxvii. 157 ‘Good Lord!’ Lyle's pretended surprise was an open mockery. 1993 W. Baldwin Hard to catch Mercy x. 320 The old woman tapped her temple with a fingertip, and then spoke with a pretended hesitancy. †3. Intended, proposed. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > [adjective] > relating to intention or purpose > intended or purposed purposed?a1425 pretenced1543 pretended1573 meditated1588 meant1590 intended1592 contemplated1657 intending1788 would-be1813 1573 New Custome i. i. sig. Aiv^v For the better accomplishing our subtlety pretended, It were expedient that bothe our names were amended. 1578 G. Best True Disc. Passage to Cathaya i. 46 Two small Barkes..wherein hee intended to accomplish his pretended voyage. 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. Author's Pref. 2 Therbye to attayne vnto his pretended intente. a1617 J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1827) 14 The twa Scotis scollairs never obtenit payement fra the bischop for ther pretendit fraud. 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. lxxiii The suffering Populace, whose pretended Forfeitures were granted before Conviction. 1703 D. Defoe Reasons against War Misc. 194 That we should..be Insulted by the French in the Article of the pretended New King [of Spain]. †4. Put forward for consideration or acceptance. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1646 T. Gataker Mistake Removed To Rdr. 1 A bush sufficient of itself to invite to such pretious pretended liquor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1461
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