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Pretence
n.
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The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption; pretension.
Pretence
n.
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The act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging Caesar's death.
Pretence
n.
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That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint.
Pretence
n.
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Intention; design.
Pretensed
a.
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Pretended; feigned.
Pretenseful
a.
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Abounding in pretenses.
Pretenseless
a.
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Not having or making pretenses.
Pretension
n.
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The act of pretending, or laying claim; the act of asserting right or title.
Pretension
n.
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A claim made, whether true or false; a right alleged or assumed; a holding out the appearance of possessing a certain character; as, pretensions to scholarship.
Pretentative
a.
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Fitted for trial beforehand; experimental.
Pretentious
a.
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Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one's; presuming; assuming.
Preter-
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A prefix signifying past, by, beyond, more than; as, preter- mission, a permitting to go by; preternatural, beyond or more than is natural.
Preterhuman
a.
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More than human.
Preterient
a.
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Passed through; antecedent; previous; as, preterient states.
Preterimperfect
a. & n.
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Old name of the tense also called imperfect.
Preterist
n.
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One whose chief interest is in the past; one who regards the past with most pleasure or favor.
Preterist
n.
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One who believes the prophecies of the Apocalypse to have been already fulfilled.
Preterit
a.
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Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.
Preterit
a.
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Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.
Preterit
n.
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The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.
Preterite
a. & n.
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Same as Preterit.
Preteriteness
n.
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Same as Preteritness.
Preterition
n.
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The act of passing, or going past; the state of being past.
Preterition
n.
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A figure by which, in pretending to pass over anything, a summary mention of it is made; as, "I will not say, he is valiant, he is learned, he is just." Called also paraleipsis.
Preterition
n.
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The omission by a testator of some one of his heirs who is entitled to a portion.
Preteritive
a.
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Used only or chiefly in the preterit or past tenses, as certain verbs.
Preteritness
n.
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The quality or state of being past.
Preterlapsed
a.
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Past; as, preterlapsed ages.
Preterlegal
a.
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Exceeding the limits of law.
Pretermission
n.
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The act of passing by or omitting; omission.