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What does pretences mean?

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Noun
  1. plural of pretence
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Fights were sometimes orchestrated under false pretences, so that inmates could swipe and pilfer a target person's store items.
If his case doesn't justify asylum, then there are millions of undeserving asylum seekers living here under false pretences.
But Baptists would readminister the rite to every one who had received it on false pretences, or to whom it had been involuntarily administered.
He was planning to take advantage of the Hales' sympathy to obtain money from them on false pretences.
That was what made for me its philosophical pretences so unpardonable.
The apter he is to smatter, the slower he is in making any advance in his pretences.

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