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- verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of
fain .
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Examples
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I know I would have just, like, fained, right then and there.
Twilight Lexicon » Dinner With Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, & Tayor Lautner 2009
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I can lie and say it doesn't bother me, but the tear leaking down my cheak, even now, would give my fained indiferance away.
madrigle Diary Entry madrigle 2006
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Mitra fained concern for the kids by blanketing them all as lazy is a little insulting.
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The Grekes, which haue set furthe so many thynges in fained tales, and fables of Poetes (farre aboue credite) concernyng the rewarde of the good, and punishment of the euill: could not with all their deuices, drawe men to vertue, and withdrawe them from vices.
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Protestant Lavater wanted to prove that “Preestes and Monckes fained themselves to be Spirites.”
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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Protestant Lavater wanted to prove that “Preestes and Monckes fained themselves to be Spirites.”
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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Protestant Lavater wanted to prove that “Preestes and Monckes fained themselves to be Spirites.”
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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Whereupon I gather their fained courtesie proceeded rather for feare then of any good affection vnto her Maiesties seruice, Elbing and Stoad onely excepted, which of duetie for their commoditie I esteemed well affected.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Neither they which haue committed these euil parts had any power vnder your highnesse safeconduct graunted vnto our subiects, but from some other safeconduct whether it were true or fained, we knowe not, or whether they bought it of any person within the gouernment of Marseils: but vnder the colour thereof they haue done that, which the trueth of our dealing doeth vtterly abhorre.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For it is most apparent, not onely out of all ancient and credible histories, but euen from the experience and state of these regions, that the said title and allegations are fabulous and fained.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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