About The Word Pretender
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Pretender
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What's The Definition Of Pretender?
[n] a person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold
[n] a person who makes deceitful pretenses [n] a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title) Synonyms | Synonyms for Pretender: dissembler | fake | faker | fraud | hypocrite | imposter | impostor | phoney | phony | pseud | pseudo | role player | sham | shammer Related Terms | Find terms related to Pretender: See Also | beguiler | charmer | cheat | cheater | claimant | deceiver | namedropper | ringer | slicker | smoothie | smoothy | sweet talker | Tartufe | Tartuffe | trickster | whited sepulcher | whited sepulchre Pretender In Webster's Dictionary \Pre*tend"er\, n.
1. One who lays claim, or asserts a title (to something); a
claimant. Specifically, The pretender (Eng. Hist.), the
son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal
family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great
Britain, from which the house was excluded by law.
It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are
the confident pretenders to certainty. --Glanvill.
2. One who pretends, simulates, or feigns.
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