To assume an appearance, make oneself seem, to pretend. (Very common in Udall's writings.)
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| 释义 | the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > pretend, dissemble [verb (intransitive)] > to be (4) semble1542 To assume an appearance, make oneself seem, to pretend. (Very common in Udall's writings.) to figure for1596 intransitive. To make an appearance, to appear; often with as: To appear in the character of, stand for; also, to look like. †to figure for: (a) to… to set up for1688 to set up for v. To put oneself forward as (a person of a certain kind or class), to lay claim to being (so-and-so). Also, to set up for being… to set up1889 (absol. of ii.) To lay claim or pretend to be. |
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