Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a feigned manner; deceitfully; falsely.

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Examples

  • Or, "I came not to call the righteous," that is, the feignedly righteous, those who boasted of their righteousness as the Pharisees, but those that owned themselves sinners.

    Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew 1225?-1274 1842

  • Learn from this in future not to extinguish your spirit even for a moment during your prayer; pray in spirit and truth, unremittingly, and not flattering the Lord during prayer by one single word -- that is, not pronouncing a single word feignedly, hypocritically; let your prayer be only the expression of truth, the mouthpiece of the Holy Ghost, and do not let it serve by a single word the enemy's lie, nor be in any way the organ of the Devil.

    My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God 1829-1909 1897

  • And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Halting, my strange traveller chanted in a feignedly senile and tremulous voice, as he beat time with his foot:

    Through Russia 2003

  • And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.

    Jeremiah 3. 1999

  • And, indeed, he does not speak feignedly, nor pretend something different from what he has in his mind.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • As if truly he had prayed in vain; or had feignedly professed that the remedy was in the hand of God.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • Peter shows, that when, on a previous occasion, she called Abraham lord, she did not do so feignedly; since he proposes her, as an example of voluntary subjection, to pious and chaste matrons.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • Therefore I do not doubt that he feignedly reproved his son, from a desire to appease contention.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

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