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Definition of Pretensions
1. pretension [v] - See also: pretension
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pretensions
Literary usage of Pretensions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1861)
"WE have heretofore had occasion to advert to the annoyances and perplexities
occasioned to Washington by the claims and pretensions of foreign officers who ..."
2. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1893)
"to renew his ancient pretensions to her hand, she summoned them to Whitehall,
and, deny- but his son Philip was ready to become her ing their right to limit ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... destitute of saints and soldiers, they were besieged and stormed by the Huns ;
manner, the daughters of China ; and the pretensions of Attila were not ..."
4. The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne by George Berkeley, John Dewey, Ferdinand Gregorovius, George Sampson, Annie Hamilton, Arthur James Balfour Balfour (1898)
"Their pretensions and conduct inconsistent. 28. Men and brutes compared with
respect to religion. 29. Christianity the only means to establish natural ..."
5. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"Thus, midway between the French and the Austrian pretensions, stood, superior to
both, the claim of the Electoral Prince Joseph Ferdinand. , This claim was ..."
6. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1908)
"Thus, midway between the French and the Austrian pretensions, stood, superior to
both, the claim of the Electoral Prince Joseph Ferdinand. ..."
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