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What is the noun for pretexted?

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pretense
  1. (US) A false or hypocritical profession
  2. Intention or purpose not real but professed.
  3. An unsupported claim made or implied.
  4. An insincere attempt to reach a specific condition or quality.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Todd Brown had obviously come on board under the pretense of being a guest.”
      “Often, I conned my mother into letting me stay up late with the pretense of homework or reading a book.”
      “Morishima is clearly arguing in favor of using the pretense of independence as a diplomatic ploy.”
pretender
  1. A person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold.
  2. A claimant to an abolished or already occupied throne.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “It has been supposed that she was compromised in the conspiracy which had caused a new pretender to the throne to spring up in Ireland.”
      “I believe that Trocero will bring forward some pretender who he will claim is King Conan.”
      “Sometimes the country has to take precedence over a do-nothing imposter and pretender to the throne.”
pretension
  1. A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.
  2. Pretentiousness.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Ambrosius spoke to Praxiteles without a trace of pretension or arrogance.”
      “The lack of pretension in the decor was surprising. She didn't know what she had expected, but the offices of upper management she had seen usually looked more like small museums, lined with trophies, plaques, and photographs.”
      “Under the pretension that the act enforces competition, the freebooters in the industry push to the limit predatory competition for the purpose of destroying and gradually securing control.”
pretence
  1. (British spelling) An act of pretending or pretension; a false claim or pretext.
  2. (obsolete) Intention; design.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “He asked me questions without any pretence at politeness.”
      “Often, I conned my mother into letting me stay up late with the pretence of homework or reading a book.”
      “He abducted the queen on the pretence of seeking to protect her.”
pretext
  1. A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason; a pretense.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It merely serves as a pretext to whip the country into a war frenzy and to justify the insertion of large numbers of troops.”
      “The mugging was merely the pretext for heavy-duty flirting between a dishy detective and Keelin, the lovelorn physiotherapist.”
pretending
pretendence
  1. (obsolete) The act of pretending; pretense.
pretendant
pretendership
  1. The character or claims of a pretender.
pretentiousness
  1. The quality of being pretentious.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The actor's pretentiousness was evident in his condescending attitude towards the cast and crew.”
      “Her pretentiousness during the awards ceremony was met with thunderous applause and admiration from the crowd.”
      “Contemporary dance is constantly called upon to protest its relevance against accusations of complacency and pretentiousness.”
pretextuality
  1. The quality of being pretextual.
pretention
  1. Archaic spelling of pretension.
  2. Examples:
    1. “We all are able to live as peaceful observers, whose acts are deprived of agitation and pretention.”
      “On the way, we stopped a few hours in Valladolid, a little colonial city, pretty and without any pretention.”
      “Lacking conscious artistry or literary pretention, his writing is noted for the brilliant intellect it reveals.”
pretendress
pretexture
  1. (obsolete) pretext
pretentiousnesses
pretenderships
  1. plural of pretendership
pretextualities
  1. plural of pretextuality
pretendences
  1. plural of pretendence
pretendresses
  1. plural of pretendress
pretendings
pretensions
  1. plural of pretension
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Dunne, a silver-voiced soprano with aristocratic pretensions equal to any White Russian, had a great time in the role.”
      “Davis jettisons all pretensions to nostalgic Englishness and anchors the works firmly in the European post-Romantic tradition.”
      “Everybody sees through their warp, through their bias, through their pretensions, through their needs all of that.”
pretendants
pretentions
  1. plural of pretention
  2. Examples:
    1. “Doesn't the fact that the entire Security Council told Iraq that it has to disarm suggest that it, too, has pretentions of knowing what's best for the Iraqi people?”
      “European universalism traditionnaly confuses universalism with its own pretentions.”
      “For a system of thought to be classified as a pseudoscience, should it not have scientific pretentions?”
pretextures
  1. plural of pretexture
pretenders
  1. plural of pretender
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Can't we just get rid of the young pretenders and instal him as King of England?”
      “As a result, attempts to dethrone Henry were poorly supported in England and the Yorkist pretenders failed to carry conviction.”
      “I saw myself protecting poetry against the pretenders, the charlatans, the fakers.”
pretences
  1. plural of pretence
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  3. Examples:
    1. “If his case doesn't justify asylum, then there are millions of undeserving asylum seekers living here under false pretences.”
      “The nuances, exaggerations and pretences of conversation can be taken literally.”
      “Fights were sometimes orchestrated under false pretences, so that inmates could swipe and pilfer a target person's store items.”
pretenses
  1. plural of pretense
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In lucid prose, he shreds pretenses and pretexts and demands consistent, bright lines.”
      “They'll put on the usual pretenses of being happy to be there, and all, but I know it's all a facade.”
      “Were I lying, then I would simply bestow upon you some vague time in the future, so as to draw things out for pretenses and falsehoods.”
pretexts
  1. plural of pretext
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Moreover, where national enterprises are non-competitive, the imperial states invent pretexts to protect them from more efficient producers.”
      “This would bring an end to his many attempts to extort money from organisations on the flimsiest of pretexts.”
      “He has often sought to justify repression on the pretexts of threatened coups against his government.”
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