Both Uses
feigned
in
Great Expectations
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- I'm so frightened!" feigned to be in a paroxysm of terror and contrition, occasioned by the dignity of my appearance.†
p. 259.6feigned = pretended (made a pretense of)
- Next day I had the meanness to feign that I was under a binding promise to go down to Joe; but I was capable of almost any meanness towards Joe or his name.†
p. 375.5 *feign = pretend (make a pretense of)
Definitions:
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(1)
(feigned) pretended -- usually pretending to feel something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)