feign
verbEtymology
From Middle English feynen, feinen, borrowed from Old French feindre (“to pretend”), from Latin fingere (“to form, shape, invent”). Compare French feignant (present participle of feindre, literally “feigning”). Also compare feint, figment and fiction.
Definitions
To make a false show or pretence of
To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.
- The pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam.
- They feigned her signature on the cheque.
- [T]he truest poetry is the most feigning, and lovers are given to poetry, and what they swear in poetry may be said as lovers they do feign.
To imagine
To imagine; to invent; to pretend to do something.
- He feigned that he had gone home at the appointed time.
- Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick…
To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent; to feint.
The neighborhood
- synonymdeceive
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at feign. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at feign. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at feign
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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