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Definition
a false appearance or action to help one pretend
- The praise of judgment Virgil has justly contested with him, and others may have their pretensions as to particular excellences; but his invention remains yet unrivalled.Preface (0% in)
There are no more uses of "pretense" in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope).
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