Definition of Feigns

1. Verb. (third-person singular of feign) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Feigns

1. feign [v] - See also: feign

Lexicographical Neighbors of Feigns

feh
fehling
fehm
fehme
fehmic
fehs
feign
feigned
feigned eruption
feignedly
feigner
feigners
feigning
feigningly
feignings
feigns (current term)
feijoa
feijoa bush
feijoada
feijoadas
feijoas
feine
feined
feinglosite
feining
feint
feinted
feinter
feintest
feinting

Literary usage of Feigns

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1796)
"... when he feigns, that he had talked over the point with Homer, in the I/land of the ... feigns ..."

2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... an excellent lustre in sordibus, in beggary, as a jewel on a dunghill will shine and cast his rays, it cannot be suppressed, which Heliodorus feigns of ..."

3. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"When Venus stood before Anchises (as * Homer feigns in one of his hymns) in her costly robes, he was instantly taken, " Cùm ante ipsum starei Jovis ..."

4. The History of British India by James Mill (1848)
"Man Sing feigns imbecility, and abdicates. — Continuance of Amir Khan's depredations.— Distracted state of Central India. ..."

5. The Voyages and Explorations of Samuel de Champlain (1604-1616) by Samuel de Champlain, Annie Thomson (Nettleton) Bourne (1906)
"CHAPTER IV The King of France feigns to take no notice for a time of the injury that he has received from the Spaniards in the cruelty that they showed to ..."

6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"... Mr. Willis sees all things in his travels with the eye of a poet ; he ever ' feels or feigns a flame.' Generally, his sketches are agreeably broken, ..."

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