Both Uses
feigned
in
Things Fall Apart
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- On receiving such a message through a younger brother or sister, Nwoye would feign annoyance and grumble aloud about women and their troubles.†
p. 52.7feign = pretend (make a pretense of)
- And so he feigned that he no longer cared for women's stories.†
p. 54.3 *feigned = pretended (made a pretense of)
Definitions:
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(1)
(feigned) pretended -- usually pretending to feel something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)