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pretender
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A pretender is one who maintains a claim that he is entitled to a position of honour or rank, which may be occupied by an incumbent (usually more recognised), or whose powers may currently be exercised by another person or authority. Most often, it refers ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE young ▪ Some years ago, the young pretender Willis added Dylan to his forenames of Robert George. ▪ But all the attention to the young pretender , there's no dismissing the appeal of his older predecessor! EXAMPLES ...
Usage examples of pretender.
One facet of their ploy was to claim that all Kings since the Abdication of Chivalry were pretenders, that the bastardy of FitzChivalry Farseer was wrongly construed as an obstacle to his inheriting the throne.
If he supported Jarkadon, then the proclamation of bastardy effectively named him as a traitor for fathering Vindax and he must turn against his own son as a pretender.
This earl was a great hypocrite, a pretender to the strictest religion, an encourager of the Puritans, and founder of hospitals.
The city of Glasgow, in North Britain, presented a petition, praying to be reimbursed the sum of ten thousand pounds, extorted from that corporation by the son of the pretender during the rebellion.
Given all the stopovers the Young Pretender had made, Melrose wondered how he ever got to his destination.
The authorities exiled him and he absconded to Morella to join the forces of the pretender Don Carlos.
After that day, if Morre had revealed himself to truly be a pretender to the throne of the Emperor of the Four Kingdoms and in league with El Diablo, himself, atop it all, not a noble or man of the tax train but would have raised his banner and his war cry, and Conde-Imperial Ramon would have been first.
In Scotland the Jacobites made no scruple of professing their principles and attachments to the pretender.
The archaic lanes and houses and unexpected bits of square and court had indeed delighted me, and when I found the poets and artists to be loud-voiced pretenders whose quaintness is tinsel and whose lives are a denial of all that pure beauty which is poetry and art, I stayed on for love of these venerable things.
Sonja removed the note and read it, deciphering the spidery script that seemed both calligraphy and a spirograph drawing - the secret language of the Pretenders.
We sent Mithridates a stiff note refusing to countenance any pretender on the Bithynian throne, and ordering him to stay within his own borders.
She had, indeed, changed the name of Sophia into that of the Pretender, and had reported, that drinking his health was the cause for which Jones was knocked down.
The first real success was not until 826, when the Jutish pretender to the throne, Harald, was converted by the Emperor, Louis the Pious, and the Frankish monk Ansgar.
On the contrary, Kwa, a pretender, could stir up fanatical underlings to a fever pitch.
The last of the major pretenders to the Messiahship was Bal Shem Tov, who was born in the Ukraine at about the same time as Jacob Frank.