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feint
in
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
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If you had fallen up against him (as some of them did), on purpose, he would have made a feint of endeavouring to seize you, which would have been an affront to your understanding, and would instantly have sidled off in the direction of the plump sister.†
p. 85.5

Definitions:

(1) (feint)
any distracting or deceptive maneuver; or the act of making the maneuver

Feint is most typically used for physical maneuvers as when boxing, fencing, or moving troops where a mock attack diverts attention from the real attack. But it can also be used much more generally as when Charlotte Bronte wrote of "a mere feint of politeness."
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, feint is a non-standard spelling of faint in the sense of something that is barley perceptible.