英语词汇“pretense”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	pretense
释义	pre·tense I. noun or pre·tence \prēˈten(t)s, prə̇ˈ-, ˈprēˌt-\ (-s) Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French pretensse, from (assumed) Medieval Latin praetensa, from Late Latin, feminine of praetensus (Latin praetentus), past participle of Latin praetendere 1. : a claim made or implied < theory which has made the … greatest pretense of having a scientific foundation — John Dewey > especially : a claim indicated outwardly but not supported by fact < the pretense that one does not use theater music in religious ceremonies — Virgil Thomson > 2. a. : mere ostentation : pretentiousness < confuse dignity with pomposity and pretense — Bennett Cerf > b. : a pretentious act or assertion < it would be a delight to talk without pretense — Louis Bromfield > 3. : an attempt to attain a certain condition or quality < the people were so overwhelmingly ignorant that democracy could only be a pretense — C.L.Jones > < laboring … to keep some pretense of order in San Antonio — Green Peyton > — often used with at < without pretense at general inclusiveness — Frank Weitenkampf > 4. a. obsolete : intention, purpose b. : professed rather than real intention or purpose : cover, pretext, excuse < felt as though he were there under false pretenses — Joseph Conrad > < under a pretense of personal devotion to a country in which he was not born — O.S.J.Gogarty > 5. a. : something alleged or believed on slight grounds : an unwarranted assumption < mother's affectionate pretense of his being head of the family — Mary Austin > b. : make-believe, fiction 6. : the act of offering something false or feigned : presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical : deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real : false show : simulation < made a pretense of searching his pockets for cigarettes > < saw through his pretense of indifference > II. transitive verb or pretence (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: probably back-formation from pretensed obsolete : pretend
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