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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Feign

The Bible

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  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: Yes
  • Included in BDB: No

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Feign

FEIGN, verb transitive fane. [Latin fingo. The Latin forms fictum, fictus, whence figura, figure, also fucus.]

1. To invent or imagine; to form an idea or conception of something not real.

There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. Nehemiah 6:8.

2. To make a show of; to pretend; to assume a false appearance; to counterfeit.

I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner. 2 Samuel 14:2.

She feigns a laugh.

3. To represent falsely; to pretend; to form and relate a fictitious tale.

The poet did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods.

4. To dissemble; to conceal. obsolete


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Feigned

FEIGNED, participle passive Invented; devised; imagined; assumed.


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Feignedly

FEIGNEDLY, adverb In fiction; in pretense; not really.


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Feignedness

FEIGNEDNESS, noun Fiction; pretense; deceit.


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Feigner

FEIGNER, noun One who feigns; an inventor; a deviser of fiction.


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Feigning

FEIGNING, participle present tense Imagining; inventing; pretending; making a false show.

FEIGNING, noun A false appearance; artful contrivance.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Feigningly

FEIGNINGLY, adverb With false appearance.


The Bible

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  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
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  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: Yes
  • Included in BDB: No

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