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Webster 1913 Edition


Feigned

Feigned

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Adj.
Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.
“A feigned friend.”
Shak.
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Feign′ed-ly
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adv.
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Feign′ed-ness
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Noun.
Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but
feignedly
.
Jer. iii. 10.
Feigned issue
(Law)
,
an issue produced in a pretended action between two parties for the purpose of trying before a jury a question of fact which it becomes necessary to settle in the progress of a cause.
Burill.
Bouvier.

Webster 1828 Edition


Feigned

FEIGNED

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pp.
Invented; devised; imagined; assumed.