feigned

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

not genuine“feigned sympathy”

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.— Neh. vi. 8.[1913 Webster]

The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

3.To dissemble; to conceal. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

Feigned \Feigned\, a. Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false. "A feigned friend." --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. --Ps. xvii. 1. -- Feign"ed*ly, adv. -- Feign"ed*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly. --Jer. iii. 10. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]