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feigned adjective pretended, affected, assumed, false, artificial, fake, imitation, simulated, sham, pseudo (informal) fabricated, counterfeit, spurious, ersatz, insincere  Translations feigned [feɪnd] adj → fingido feigned [feɪnd] feign adj → vorgetäuscht |
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The other, seeing that he must be attacked, fell flat on the ground, and when the Bear came up and felt him with his snout, and smelt him all over, he held his breath, and feigned the appearance of death as much as he could. In composing the Odyssey he did not include all the adventures of Odysseus--such as his wound on Parnassus, or his feigned madness at the mustering of the host--incidents between which there was no necessary or probable connection: but he made the Odyssey, and likewise the Iliad, to centre round an action that in our sense of the word is one. Its attitude is summed up in the words of the Muses to the writer of the "Theogony": `We can tell many a feigned tale to look like truth, but we can, when we will, utter the truth' ("Theogony" |
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