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pseudo, quasi-a. (n., adv.) and a.
(ˈsjuːdəʊ, formerly also ˈpsjuːdəʊ)
[The combining element pseudo- as a separate word.]
A. quasi-adj. (n., adv.)
a. False, counterfeit, pretended, spurious. (Now usually hyphened to the following noun: see pseudo- 1.) † Also absol.
†b. n. (with pl.) A false person, a pretender.
†c. adv. Falsely. rare.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 308 Hou men shal knowe siche pseudoes. Ibid. 479 Many pseudois may speke myche wiþ-oute ground. 1390Gower Conf. II. 190 It were thanne litel nede Among the men to taken hiede Of that thei hieren Pseudo telle, Which nou is come forto duelle. 1402Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 55 Ffor thou and other pseudo han marrid hem in the way. c1449Pecock Repr. iii. xi. 342 So manye pseudo or false Apostlis. Ibid. 343 What so greet myscheef schulde bi likelihode haue come bi habundaunce of ricches in tho pseudo, as came bi her pouerte in hem, whanne thei diffameden the trewe Apostlis. 1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 42 Such Pseudo apostles was among vs sometimes. 1679in Reg. Synod of Dunblane (1877) 150 By the said Bishop and a committee of his pseudo Synod deposed from the exercise of my ministrie. 1810Scott Let. to Morritt 2 Mar. in Lockhart, Luxuries which, when long gratified, become a sort of pseudo necessaries. 1854Mrs. Oliphant M. Hepburn II. 221 ‘Your reverent worship has acquaintance with my kinswoman’, said the pseudo youth.
B. adj. Pretentious, insincere, sham, affected, meaningless; having aspirations beyond true worth. Also absol. as n., a pretentious or insincere person. Pl. pseudoes, pseudos.
Now used independently of its relation to the combining form pseudo- which characterizes the senses in A.
1945Archit. Rev. XCVII. 110/1 The flamboyant, the vulgar, the monumental and the ‘pseudo’ have had their day. 1958Times 11 Dec. 6/2 The whole conception was ‘pseudo’. 1959K. Tynan in J. Feiffer Sick Sick Sick (ed. 2) Introd., The real Bohemians of Greenwich Village as well as the pseudoes. 1959K. R. Popper Logic Sci. Discovery ii. 51 Nothing is easier than to unmask a problem as ‘meaningless’ or ‘pseudo’. 1962John o' London's 19 Apr. 371/1 So all the pseudos flocked in. 1964J. Symons End of Solomon Grundy iii. ii. 150 That's the trouble with the country to-day, too many pseudo people in it... This garage trouble, now, it comes from the pseudos like that man Grundy. 1967Observer (Colour Suppl.) 28 May 14/2 The undiscriminating, arty chat of a campus pseudo. 1977Time 18 Apr. 1/1 Intellectuals all over the world, real or pseudo, proudly proclaim that ‘democracy’ won. |