The Collaborative International Dictionary
make-belief
make-belief \make"-be*lief`\, n.
A feigning to believe; make believe.
--J. H. Newman.
Usage examples of "make-belief".
Can we not understand that it was needful to shake mankind loose from gossip and pink teas, and sword-worship, and Saturday night drunks, and self seeking politics and theological quibbles -- to wake them up and make them realise that they stand upon a narrow knife-edge between two awful eternities, and that, here and now, they have to finish with make-beliefs, and with real earnestness and courage face those truths which have always been palpable where indolence, or cowardice, or vested interests have not obscured the vision.