pretendence
English
editNoun
editpretendence (countable and uncountable, plural pretendences)
- (obsolete) The act of pretending; pretense.
- 1603, Samuel Daniel, A Panegyrick Congratulatory to the King's Most Excellent Majesty:
- God and men doe scorne
Their proiects, censures, vaine pretendences
References
edit“pretendence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.