Feigning : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Feigning	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Feigning
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
feigning n pretending with intention to deceive [syn: pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling] the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending" Synonym(s): pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Feign \Feign\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Feigned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Feigning}.] [OE. feinen, F. feindre (p. pr. feignant), fr. L. fingere; akin to L. figura figure,and E. dough. See {Dough}, and cf. {Figure}, {Faint}, {Effigy}, {Fiction}.] 1. To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true. There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. --Neh. vi. 8. The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. --Shak. 2. To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness. --Shak. 3. To dissemble; to conceal. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Feigning \Feign"ing\, a. That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false. -- {Feign"ing*ly}, adv.