Feigned a. Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false. “A feigned friend.”
Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. --Ps. xvii. 1.
-- Feign*ed*ly adv. -- Feign*ed*ness, n.
Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly. --Jer. iii. 10.
Feigned issue Law, an issue produced in a pretended action between two parties for the purpose of trying before a jury a question of fact which it becomes necessary to settle in the progress of a cause. --Burill. --Bouvier.
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