prætend

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Verb

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prætend (third-person singular simple present prætends, present participle prætending, simple past and past participle prætended)

  1. Obsolete spelling of pretend.
    • 1646, Oiluer Cromwell, featured in The Gentleman’s Magazine, Volume LIV, page 337:
      I ca’nott prætend to any I’tereſt in you for any thinge I have donn, nor aſke any fauor for any ſeruice I may doe you.

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