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Definition: feigned
feigned
adj : not genuine;
“feigned sympathy”
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Definition: Feigned
Feign
\Feign\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Feigned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Feigning.] [OE. feinen, F. feindre (p. pr. feignant), fr.
L. fingere; akin to L. figura figure,and E. dough. See
Dough, and cf.
Figure,
Faint,
Effigy,
Fiction.]
1. To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or
actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form
and relate as if true.
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There are no such things done as thou sayest, but
thou feignest them out of thine own heart. --Neh.
vi. 8.
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The poet
Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and
floods. --Shak.
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2. To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to
counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness. --Shak.
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3. To dissemble; to conceal. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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Feigned
\Feigned\, a.
Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere;
false.
“A feigned friend.” --Shak.
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Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned
lips. --Ps. xvii. 1.
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Feign"ed*ly, adv. --
Feign"ed*ness, n.
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Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me
with her whole heart, but feignedly. --Jer. iii.
10.
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Feigned issue (Law), an issue produced in a pretended
action between two parties for the purpose of trying
before a jury a question of fact which it becomes
necessary to settle in the progress of a cause. --Burill.
--Bouvier.
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