Crossword clues for feigned
feigned
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Feign \Feign\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feigned; p. pr. & vb. n. Feigning.] [OE. feinen, F. feindre (p. pr. feignant), fr. L. fingere; akin to L. figura figure,and E. dough. See Dough, and cf. Figure, Faint, Effigy, Fiction.]
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To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.
There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
--Neh. vi. 8.The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods.
--Shak. To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness.
--Shak.To dissemble; to conceal. [Obs.]
--Spenser.
Feigned \Feigned\, a.
Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere;
false. ``A feigned friend.''
--Shak.
Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned
lips.
--Ps. xvii. 1.
-- Feign"ed*ly, adv. -- Feign"ed*ness, n.
Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me
with her whole heart, but feignedly.
--Jer. iii.
10.
Feigned issue (Law), an issue produced in a pretended
action between two parties for the purpose of trying
before a jury a question of fact which it becomes
necessary to settle in the progress of a cause.
--Burill.
--Bouvier.
Wiktionary
Being a pretense, a counterfeit, or something false or fraudulent. v
(en-past of: feign)
WordNet
adj. not genuine; "feigned sympathy"
Usage examples of "feigned".
Then the old woman rendring out like sighes, began to speake in this sort : My daughter take a good heart unto you, and bee not afeared at feigned and strange visions and dreams, for as the visions of the day are accounted false and untrue, so the visions of the night doe often change contrary.
Dyne, his scrawny arms strapped to a pair of Y-shaped branches, eyes girlishly aflutter, feigned to yield his hairless body into the ecstatic admixture of bliss and pain of which he fancied heaven was justly composed.
He had tried several times to speak to her while in Hes, but always she had feigned tiredness or some pressing business, and she never seemed to require his bodyguard services anymore, the way she had during their first weeks together.
The same may be said of feigned insanity, aphonia, deaf-mutism, and loss of memory.
A few moments later Sigurd Ring awoke from his feigned sleep, and after telling Frithiof that he had recognized him from the first, had tested him in many ways, and had always found his honor fully equal to his vaunted courage, he bade him be patient a little longer, for his end was very near, and said that he would die happy if he could leave Ingeborg, his infant heir, and his kingdom in such good hands.
When he came back, the bondswoman looked at him with feigned disinterest.
He was rather addicted to gallantry, and the empress, who always called him master feigned not to notice it, because she did not want the world to know that her charms could no longer captivate her royal spouse, and the more so that the beauty of her numerous family was generally admired.
I feigned a passionate desire, and I could see that I should not have much trouble in gaining my suit.
Donna Ignazia feigned to be persuaded and asked her lover to sit down, but she did not speak another word to him, confining her remarks to me, saying how much she had enjoyed the ball, and how kind I had been to take her cousins.
It was some years since Stephen had heard Jack reprove one of his officers, and he was much struck by the remarkable advance in efficacity, by the impersonal, God-like, severe authority that could not possibly be feigned or assumed by any man who did not naturally possess it.
As with the rest of the story that Bossk had just related, Boba Fett feigned hearing it for the first time.
Mademoiselle de Fontanges, given to the King by her shameless family, feigned love and passion for the monarch, as though he had returned by enchantment to his twentieth year.
When we were far enough in advance, I ventured to ask her why she had supposed my toothache to have been feigned.
A toothache would not have prevented you from being polite, and therefore I thought it had been feigned for some purpose.
In the evening, we had the same bank at faro, with the same result as the first time, except a violent blow from the stick of one of the punters upon the back of the banker, of which the Greek stoically feigned to take no notice.