PRETENDER • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Pretender

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/pritˈɛndər/ Listen

Pretender

noun

A claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title).

A person who makes deceitful pretenses. Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer.

A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives. Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony.

See more definitions of Pretender...

See images of 'Pretender'

Etymology of 'Pretender'

Share |

"Pretender" Quotes from Famous Books

... sons of David, Adonijah, the son of Haggith, must be mentioned particularly, the pretender to the throne. The fifty men whom he prepared to run before him had fitted themselves for the place of heralds by cutting out their spleen and the flesh of the soles of their feet. That Adonijah was not designated for the royal dignity, was made manifest by the fact ...

— THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS VOLUME IV BIBLE TIMES AND CHARACTERS - FROM THE EXODUS TO THE DEATH OF MOSES • BY LOUIS GINZBERG

... withdrew its subscription, (ib. 185.) The old Jacobites maintained that the power did not descend to Mary, William, or Anne. It was for this reason that Boswell said that Johnson should have been taken to Rome; though indeed it was not till some years after he was 'touched' by Queen Anne that the Pretender dwelt there. The Hanoverian kings never 'touched.' The service for the ceremony was printed in the Book of Common Prayer as late as 1719. (Penny Cyclo. xxi. 113.) 'It appears by the newspapers of the time,' says Mr. Wright, ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell

... Original Letter respecting Cibber's Apology Ancient Tapestry, by J.R. Planche Travelling in England Prison Discipline and Execution of Justice Medal of the Pretender, by Edw. Hawkins John Aubrey, by J. Britton Inedited Song by Suckling White Gloves at Maiden Assizes, by William J. Thomas Adversaria—Don Quixote—Dr. Dove Inscription on Church Plate Anecdotes of Books, by Joseph Hunter Queries answered, ...

— Notes & Queries 1849.12.01 • Various

... what if I should do it in effigies? Is there never an old pope or pretender to hang up in my stead? We are not so unlike ...

— The History of John Bull • John Arbuthnot

... observed at the approaching coronation, and the persons to be invited to assist at it, when they were suddenly interrupted by the intelligence that the Padshah Begum, the adoptive mother of the late King, with a large armed force, and the young pretender, Moonna Jan, were coming on to seize upon the throne, and might soon be expected at the principal entrance to ...

— A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II • William Sleeman

More quotes...