Read full poem →Here rests a woman, good without pretence,
Blest with plain reason, and with sober sense:
Dictionary Entry
An act of pretending or pretension; a false claim or pretext.
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Common Phrases
. pretencewhatever pretencewhatsoever pretencepretence underpretence anypretence false
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Poetry examples for “pretence”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →course writ by one T. D. under the
pretence De Causa Dei and of answering
Mr. John Howe's Letter and Postscript
Read full poem →(No common favour) of seeing the great Ludovisi collection,
Why, I made this a pretence, and wrote that they must excuse me.
How could I go? Great Heavens! to conduct a permitted flirtation
Read full poem →Poets' large power is boundless and immense,
Nor have their words true history's pretence.
And my wench ought to have seemed falsely praised,
Read full poem →To high, traditional good-sense,
And knowledge ripe without pretence,
And human truth exactly hit
Read full poem →warned the settlers of their danger, and collected them within the
town. An Indian spy, who presently entered, under pretence of
trading in furs, reported to his people that, though he spoke
Read full poem →But when you came and looked at me,
You tried my poor pretence too much.
O love, do you know the secret now
Read full poem →matter. In their manner, we find an extremely fastidi-
ous art disguised by colloquialisms and a pretence of
“every-which-way”’ (to borrow Frost’s own word). In
Read full poem →Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity.
The rest to some faint meaning make pretence,
But Shadwell never deviates into sense.
Read full poem →That I will follow with due reverence,
And start with awe at mine own strange pretence.
Him thou wilt hear; so I will rest in hope