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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.]
1. 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.
2. To represent by a false appearance of to pretend; to
counterfeit; as to feign a sickness. --Shak.
3. To dissemble; to conceal. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
feign
v 1: make believe; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a
headache" [syn: {sham}, {pretend}, {affect}, {dissemble}]
2: make a pretence of "She assumed indifference, even though
she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep" [syn: {simulate},
{assume}, {sham}]
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