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Grammar : Noun
Spell : pri-ten-der
Phonetic Transcription : prɪˈtɛn dər

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Définition of pretender

Origin :
  • 1590s, "one who intends;" 1620s as "one who puts forth a claim;" agent noun from pretend (v.). Specifically of a claimant to the English throne from 1690s.
  • noun phony
Example sentences :
  • He has an air, it is true, but his air is not a breeze, like the air of a pretender to fashion.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • The moment might be propitious to the pretender, however false his claim.
  • Extract from : « The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series » by Rafael Sabatini
  • And yet you see after all I am like to turn out only a pretender.
  • Extract from : « The Bramleighs Of Bishop's Folly » by Charles James Lever
  • A particular account of the "Pretender's Magazine" is extant.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. » by Mrs. Thomson
  • The General asked him "if he had been along with the Pretender?"
  • Extract from : « Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 » by Mrs. Thomson
  • Is it to the emblem of the House of York, or the badge of the Pretender?
  • Extract from : « Notes and Queries, No. 179. Saturday, April 2, 1853. » by Various
  • Some say the Pretender was in the battle, and wounded; but others say he was not.
  • Extract from : « Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853 » by Various
  • (p. 300) He will not acknowledge him to have any right to the title, and calls him a pretender.
  • Extract from : « Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 » by J. Endell Tyler
  • The brothers went to Lorraine in May 1436, to see the pretender.
  • Extract from : « The Valet's Tragedy and Other Stories » by Andrew Lang
  • She said that was not known; it had been supposed a likeness of the Pretender, when young.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush » by William Makepeace Thackeray

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