pretender

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pretender englannista suomeksi

One who intends or purposes.
(Q)
One who puts forth a claim, or who aspires to or aims at something; a claimant, candidate, or aspirant; now, one who makes baseless pretensions.
(Q) must that Pretender carry himselfe, who is to saile thorow the sea of this world, hoping for a fortune from another mans hand?
(RQ:Donne Works); to consider the direct purposes of God against his enemies, rather than the sinister supplantations of pretenders to places in court; (..)
(RQ:Blackstone Commentaries)
(RQ:Disraeli Sybil)
One who aspires to the hand of a woman in marriage; a suitor, a wooer.
(RQ:Fletcher Shakespeare Two Noble Kinsmen)
(Q) whose mother not allowing him to come as a pretender shee made apointmentt with him and mett him att her cousin’s howse.
A claimant to a throne or the office of a ruler; ''originally'' in a neutral sense, but now always applied to a claimant who is held to have no just title.
(RQ:Dryden Virgil)
1708 March 11th, Anne, Queen of Great Britain|Anne ''Regina'', https://www.british-history.ac.uk/commons-hist-proceedings/vol4/pp70-97h3-0038 ''The Queen’s Speech to both Houses'', in ''The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons'', volume IV: ''1706–1713'', London: Chandler (1742), § iv: “(w)”, page 92:

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(Q) upon this occasion (..) made to the Queen.
(RQ:Scott Redgauntlet)
(Q) had friends in the tory government more sincere probably and zealous than earl of Oxford.
(Q) turned to the nearest protestant pretender, Duke Christian, and offered him his assistance to obtain the crown.
(RQ:Macaulay History of England) had its own Augustus. All these pretenders could not be rightful Emperors.
One who pretends or lays claim ''to'' something; one who makes a profession, show, or assertion, ''especially'' without adequate grounds, falsely, or with intent to deceive; a dissembler, deceiver, charlatan, hypocrite.
(RQ:Massinger Emperour of the East)
(RQ:Massinger Believe as You List)
(RQ:Hobbes Leviathan)
(RQ:Swift Polite Conversation)But, I answer; that it is not so easy an Acquirement as a few ignorant Pretenders may imagine.
(RQ:Cowper Task)
(RQ:Thackeray Barry Lyndon)
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A person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold.

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To tender (a bid, etc) in advance.
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to pretend
to want
to intend
to request
to aspire
to intend, to aim (for/to)

(ux)

to woo, to court
(senseid) to pretend, purport (gloss)
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