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- verb Present participle of
feine .
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Examples
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Scarborough is jerk of the year feining shock the Republicans would accept pork at a time like this.
McCain Says Bailout Bill He Voted For Is "Putting Us On The Brink Of Economic Disaster" 2009
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I bet you really love your mama or you would already be feining sickness, a quick & easy way out.
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I mean, it really is pretty funny if you think about it, watching the silly-assed Frist and that Mississippi racist, Trent Lott, both feining outrage and indignation.
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Héerevpon when she had knowledge that euerie thing was ordered according to hir appointment, she persuaded the king to returne thither againe, feining occasions great and necessarie.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed
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From Sandwich he came to Canturburie: and shortlie after, earle Goodwine feining to receiue him as a friend, came to meet him, and at Gilford in the night season appointed a number of armed men to fall vpon the Normans as they were asléepe, and so tooke them togither with Alfred, & slue the Normans by the poll, in such wise that nine were shine, & the tenth reserued.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (7 of 8) The Seventh Boke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed
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He called togither all his officers and seruants, feining himselfe to choose out such as would doo sacrifice to diuels, and that those onelie should remaine with him and kéepe their office, and the rest that refused so to doo, should be thrust out, and banished the court.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England Raphael Holinshed
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For it is he onelie, the father of all lyes, who hauing first of all prescribed that forme of doing, feining himselfe to be commanded & restreined thereby, wil be loath to passe the boundes of these injunctiones; aswell thereby to make them glory in the impiring ouer him
Daemonologie. King of England James I 1595
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Speaking as someone who has pancreatic cancer and a limited time left: to all of you who ware feining rightious indignation - SHUT UP!
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Palin was a total fake, feining seriousness and even knowledge itself in her attempt to bluff her way through the interview.
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Ireland, where they required of the Scots new seats to inhabit in: for the Scots which (as some thinke) were also descended of the Scithians, did as then inhabit in Ireland: but doubting that it should not be for their profit to receiue so warlike a nation into that Ile, feining as it were a friendship, and excusing the matter by the narrownesse of the countrie, declared to the Picts, that the Ile of Britaine was not farre from thence, being a large countrie and a plentifull, and not greatly inhabited: wherefore they counselled them to go thither, promising vnto them all the aid that might be.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England Raphael Holinshed
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