prætenses
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- plural of prætense
- 17th Century, The Seuen Dayes Of The Weeke, in Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana (T. Bensley and Son), volume I, page 41:
- (I hope these hard words doe not fright your senses
- I sweare tis not our meaninge, gratious vmpeere,
- To ravish you with showe of bad prætenses)
- 17th Century, The Seuen Dayes Of The Weeke, in Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana (T. Bensley and Son), volume I, page 41: