All 6 Uses
feigned
in
Volpone
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- Now, shall we see A wretch who is indeed more impotent Than this can feign to be; yet hopes to hop Over his grave.†
Act 1feign = pretend (make a pretense of)
- Feels not his gout, nor palsy; feigns himself Younger by scores of years, flatters his age With confident belying it, hopes he may, With charms, like Aeson, have his youth restored: And with these thoughts so battens, as if fate Would be as easily cheated on, as he, And all turns air!†
Act 1 *feigns = pretends (makes a pretense of)
- —O, this knight, Were he well known, would be a precious thing To fit our English stage: he that should write But such a fellow, should be thought to feign Extremely, if not maliciously.†
Act 2feign = pretend (make a pretense of)
- Prettily feign'd, again!†
Act 4feign'd = pretended (made a pretense of)
- VOLT: May her feignings Not take your wisdoms: but this day she baited A stranger, a grave knight, with her loose eyes, And more lascivious kisses.†
Act 4
- —Thou, Volpone, By blood and rank a gentleman, canst not fall Under like censure; but our judgment on thee Is, that thy substance all be straight confiscate To the hospital of the Incurabili: And, since the most was gotten by imposture, By feigning lame, gout, palsy, and such diseases, Thou art to lie in prison, cramp'd with irons, Till thou be'st sick, and lame indeed.†
Act 5feigning = pretending (making a pretense of)
Definitions:
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(1)
(feigned) pretended -- usually pretending to feel something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)