What does "feign" mean?
Feign: The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. Shak.
Additional senses
- 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.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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