All 4 Uses of
feigned
in
As You Like It
- unto the green holly: Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly!†
Scene 2.6 *feigning = pretending (making a pretense of)
- No, truly: for the truest poetry is the most feigning; and lovers are given to poetry; and what they swear in poetry may be said, as lovers, they do feign.†
Scene 3.3
- No, truly: for the truest poetry is the most feigning; and lovers are given to poetry; and what they swear in poetry may be said, as lovers, they do feign.†
Scene 3.3feign = pretend (make a pretense of)
- I do, truly, for thou swear'st to me thou art honest; now, if thou wert a poet, I might have some hope thou didst feign.†
Scene 3.3
Definition:
pretended -- usually pretending to feel something