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  • verb Present participle of pretex.

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Examples

  • Louis had gone to his own room, pretexing a headache, but really (as he blurted out afterwards) because his Uncle Lalor had said that Presbyterianism was no religion for a gentleman.

    The Dew of Their Youth 1887

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