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Definition of Feigns
1. feign [v] - See also: feign
Lexicographical Neighbors of Feigns
Literary usage of Feigns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1796)
"... when he feigns, that he had talked over the point with Homer, in the I/land
of the ... feigns ..."
2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... an excellent lustre in sordibus, in beggary, as a jewel on a dunghill will
shine and cast his rays, it cannot be suppressed, which Heliodorus feigns of ..."
3. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"When Venus stood before Anchises (as * Homer feigns in one of his hymns) in her
costly robes, he was instantly taken, " Cùm ante ipsum starei Jovis ..."
4. The History of British India by James Mill (1848)
"Man Sing feigns imbecility, and abdicates. — Continuance of Amir Khan's
depredations.— Distracted state of Central India. ..."
5. The Voyages and Explorations of Samuel de Champlain (1604-1616) by Samuel de Champlain, Annie Thomson (Nettleton) Bourne (1906)
"CHAPTER IV The King of France feigns to take no notice for a time of the injury
that he has received from the Spaniards in the cruelty that they showed to ..."
6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"... Mr. Willis sees all things in his travels with the eye of a poet ; he ever '
feels or feigns a flame.' Generally, his sketches are agreeably broken, ..."
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