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Pretender   /pritˈɛndər/   Listen
noun
Pretender  n.  
1.
One who lays claim, or asserts a title (to something); a claimant. Specifically, The pretender (Eng. Hist.), the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. "It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident pretenders to certainty."
2.
One who pretends, simulates, or feigns.





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... apart from the instances of such vicissitudes among the ancients, the King of Syracuse keeping school at Corinth, or Alexander, son of Perseus, becoming a Roman scrivener, he actually saw Charles Edward, the Stuart pretender, wandering from court to court in search of succour and receiving only rebuffs; and he may well have known that after the troubles of 1738 a considerable number of the oligarchs of his native Geneva had gone into exile, rather than endure the humiliation ...
— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley
... their dependencies. Sobriety, diligence, capacity, loyalty, and subjection to command, were essentials required in all whom he advanced. Where any of these were found wanting, no interest or authority were capable of moving him in favour of the highest pretender; the Royal command only excepted, of which he was also very watchful, to prevent any undue procurements. Discharging his duty to his Prince and Country with a religious application and perfect integrity, he feared ...
— The Diary of Samuel Pepys • Samuel Pepys
... fellow; he has the audacity to say that he has never heard of Calros the pretender, who calls ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Volume 19 - Travel and Adventure • Various
... it did when the air was thick with rumours of another rising, troubled him greatly; and there was the fact that the boy had, unknown to him, been learning fencing; and lastly this interference, which had enabled a notorious emissary of the Pretender to ...
— Bonnie Prince Charlie - A Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden • G. A. Henty
... Edward VI. did not live at St James's Palace regularly, but Queen Mary patronized it, preferring it to Whitehall. It was granted to Prince Henry during the reign of James I., and Charles I. spent the last three days before his execution here. The Prince known as the "Pretender" was born in one of the palace apartments, and many historians have commented on the fact that this chamber was conveniently near a small back-staircase, up which a new-born infant could have been smuggled. ...
— The Strand District - The Fascination of London • Sir Walter Besant


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