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  • noun Plural form of protension.

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  • Everybody who saw the march, saw that the Champion of the Teetotallers was half seas over, and noted also that his brother, who made no hypocritical protensions to extra temperance virtues, was dignified and sober.

    The Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins 1893

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