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Definition
a false appearance or action to help one pretend
- Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coin'd, To soothe his sister, and delude her mind.Book 1 (46% in)
- The Morn began, from Ida, to display Her rosy cheeks; and Phosphor led the day: Before the gates the Grecians took their post, And all pretense of late relief was lost.Book 2 (**% in)
- Fix'd on the deed, but doubtful of the means, After long thought, to this advice he leans: Three chiefs he calls, commands them to repair The fleet, and ship their men with silent care; Some plausible pretense he bids them find, To color what in secret he design'd.Book 4 (41% in)
- Let not the Trojans, with a feign'd pretense Of proffer'd peace, delude the Latian prince.Book 7 (42% in)
There are no more uses of "pretense" in The Aeneid.
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