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pretendingly en · ADV

Etymology

From pretending + -ly.

Meanings

1. So as to pretend.
   • The disagreement starts with the species capable of pretend play, which necessarily entails disagreement over what the minds involved do in order to play pretendingly, and when. 2013, Radu J. Bogdan, Mindvaults: Sociocultural Grounds for Pretending and Imagining:
2. As if by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously.
   • I have a particular Reason to look a little pretendingly at present; therefore I hope you will excuse it 1697, Jeremy Collier, Essays upon Several Moral Subjects:

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