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1An attempt to make something that is not the case appear true.
2pretence toA claim to have a particular skill or quality.
Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French pretense, based on medieval Latin pretensus ‘pretended’, alteration of Latin praetentus, from the verb praetendere (see pretend).