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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Pretense (0.02099 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to Pretense.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: pretense
aksi, buatan, kepura-puraan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: pretense
pretense
n 1: the act of giving a false appearance;
“his conformity was
only pretending” [syn:
pretence,
pretending,
simulation,
feigning]
2: pretending with intention to deceive [syn:
pretence,
feigning,
dissembling]
3: imaginative intellectual play [syn:
pretence,
make-believe]
4: a false or unsupportable quality [syn:
pretension,
pretence]
5: an artful or simulated semblance;
“under the guise of
friendship he betrayed them” [syn:
guise,
pretence,
pretext]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Pretense
Pretense
\Pre*tense"\, Pretence
\Pre*tence\, 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.
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Primogeniture can not have any pretense to a right
of solely inheriting property or power. --Locke.
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I went to Lambeth with Sir R. Brown's pretense to
the wardenship of Merton College, Oxford. --Evelyn.
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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 C[ae]sar's death.
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3. That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical
show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint.
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Let not the Trojans, with a feigned pretense
Of proffered peace, delude the Latian prince.
--Dryden.
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4. Intention; design. [Obs.]
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A very pretense and purpose of unkindness. --Shak.
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Note: See the
Note under
Offense.
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Syn: Mask; appearance; color; show; pretext; excuse.
Usage:
Pretense,
Pretext. A pretense is something held
out as real when it is not so, thus falsifying the
truth. A pretext is something woven up in order to
cover or conceal one's true motives, feelings, or
reasons. Pretext is often, but not always, used in a
bad sense.
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