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Definition of Pretends
1. pretend [v] - See also: pretend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pretends
Literary usage of Pretends
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1839)
"SECTION V. That the Church of Rome pretends to a Power of introducing into the
Confessions of the Church., new Articles of Faith ; and endeavours to alter ..."
2. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"He pretends to no discoveries, has taken no brief for or against the character
it is his duty to reproduce, has set up no full-length portrait on the ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"... in a masculin Line, in the Throne of that Kingdom, which Charles I. pretends to
be Master. Pythagoras the First was not mistaken in his Roman Catholic. ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1909)
""If, with intent to steal, one borrows or hires a horse or carriage, as he
pretends, to ride, or obtains the loan of any other chattel, » * * his offense, ..."
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