pretender
/pɹɪˈtɛndəɹ/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.80 in modern English
Meaning
noun
One who puts forth a claim, or who aspires to or aims at something; a claimant, candidate, or aspirant; now, one who makes baseless pretensions.
noun
One who puts forth a claim, or who aspires to or aims at something; a claimant, candidate, or aspirant; now, one who makes baseless pretensions.
Obsolete
noun
One who puts forth a claim, or who aspires to or aims at something; a claimant, candidate, or aspirant; now, one who makes baseless pretensions.
noun
One who pretends or lays claim to something; one who makes a profession, show, or assertion, especially without adequate grounds, falsely, or with intent to deceive; a dissembler, deceiver, charlatan, hypocrite.
verb
To tender (a bid, etc.) in advance.
Example Sentences
- "Pretensor, a pretender, he that purposeth."
- "Pretendente, a pretendent, a pretender, an intender, a meaner."
- "By how straight a Rule […] must that Pretender carry himselfe, who is to saile thorow the sea of this world, hoping for a fortune from another mans hand?"
- "[…]; to consider the direct purposes of God against his enemies, rather than the sinister supplantations of pretenders to places in court; […]"
- "Every one is a pretender and a runner; but few carry the prize."
- "The issue of the eldest son excludes all other pretenders, as the son himself (if living) would have done."