† pretendmentn.
Obsolete. rare.
A pretension, a claim.
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society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] > claiming as due or right > claim or a demand for something as due
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1642 T. Lechford Plain Dealing 146 If the congregations be not united under one Diocesan in fit compasse, they are in a confusion, notwithstanding all their classicall pretendments.
1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ vi. 62 None should presume to do, but such as can justly make that pretendment.
a1788 R. Colvill Poet. Wks. (1789) ii. 165 Vain yon tyrants proud pretendment, George and Britain claim the day.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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