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feign
/feɪn/
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What does feign mean?
verb
- To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.
- To imagine; to invent; to pretend to do something.
- To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent; to feint.
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Ashamed to own that his return was owing to his inability to ride, Jerome resolved to feign sickness.
And this hypocrisy found I worst amongst them, that even those who command feign the virtues of those who serve.
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Then it occurred to him to feign a great abstraction, pretending not to know that the time was come to pay.
He particularly remembered an old fellow who used to sit upon a cracker box in front of the store and feign to despise such exhibitions.
“I weigh not these evils,” said Rebecca, afraid to provoke the wild knight, yet equally determined neither to endure his passion, nor even feign to endure it.