feign´ing|ly

feign´ing|ly
feign «fayn», transitive verb.
1. to put on a false appearance of; make believe; pretend: »

Some animals feign death when in danger.

SYNONYM(S): assume, affect, simulate, sham.
2. to make up to deceive; invent falsely: »

to feign an excuse.

3. to represent fictitiously: »

Things…worse than fables yet have feign'd (Milton).

4. to imagine (what is unreal).
5. Obsolete. to dissemble: »

Both doth strive their fearfulness to feign (Edmund Spenser).

–v.i.
1. to make oneself appear; pretend (to be): »

He isn't sick; he is only feigning.

SYNONYM(S): assume, affect, simulate, sham.
2. Obsolete. to indulge in fiction.
[< Old French feign-, stem of feindre < Latin fingere to form]
feign´er, noun.
feign´ing|ly, adverb.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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