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2 definitions found 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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