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 Feign v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feigned p. pr. & vb. n. Feigning.]
 1. To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.
    There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.   --Neh. vi. 8.
 The poet
 Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods.   --Shak.
 2. To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness.
 3. To dissemble; to conceal. [Obs.]
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 Feign·ing, a. That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false.
 -- Feign*ing*ly, adv.
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 feigning
      n 1: pretending with intention to deceive [syn: pretense, pretence,
            dissembling]
      2: the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was
         only pretending" [syn: pretense, pretence, pretending,
          simulation]