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Pretense : 英英辞書
Pretense"
Pretence} (), n.[LL. praetensus, for L. praetentus, p. p. of praetendere. See Pretend, and cf. Tension.]
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 of Merton College, Oxford.
Evelyn.
2. The act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging Csar's death.
3. That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint.
Let not the Trojans, with a feigned pretense
Of proffered peace, delude the Latian prince.
Dryden.
4. Intention; design. [Obs.]
A very pretense and purpose of unkindness.
Shak.
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