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Pretension See also Hypocrisy. Prey (See QUARRY.) Absolon vain, officious parish clerk. [Br. Lit.: Canterbury Tales, “Miller’s Tale”] de his language inordinately disproportionate to his thought. [Br. Lit.: Love’s Labour’s Lost] king whose pomposity provoked a fatal brawl with his general. [Br. Lit.: Walsh Modern, 96] pretends to great wealth; jewels are counterfeit. [Br. Lit.: Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, Walsh Modern, 105] stiff-necked Roman aristocrat; contemptuous of the common people. [Br. Lit.: Coriolanus] shallow industrialist’s wife ostentatiously gallivants about Europe. [Am. Lit.: Dodsworth]
ostentatiously and fastidiously examines prisoners. [Br. Lit.: Much Ado About Nothing] style overly rich with alliteration, figures, and Latinisms. [Br. Lit.: Euphues, Espy, 127] inhabited by pretenders to knowledge. [Fr. Lit.: Pantagruel] parvenu grandiosely affects gentleman’s mien. [Fr. Lit.: The Bourgeois Gentilhomme] their suitors had to be flamboyant. [Fr. Lit.: Les Precieuses Ridicules] self-deluded tavern-keeper boasts about his upper-class past to maintain a show of importance. [Am. Drama: Eugene O’Neill A Touch of the Poet in Benét, 737] symbol of affectation; flower of September. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 175; Kunz, 330] boastful villain of affected sentiment and knowledge. [Br. Lit.: All’s Well That Ends Well] enters university “posing as moneyed aristocrat.” [Br. Lit.: Pendennis] nouveau-riche couple strive for social eminence. [Fr. Lit.: Proust Remembrance of Things Past] indicates affectation. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 178] of affects grandeur; kingdom is but a village. [Fr. Legend: Brewer Dictionary, 1173] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Her behaviour, I confess, has been calculated to do away with such an idea; I have not detected the smallest impropriety in it--nothing of vanity, of pretension, of levity; and she is altogether so attractive that I should not wonder at his being delighted with her, had he known nothing of her previous to this personal acquaintance; but, against reason, against conviction, to be so well pleased with her, as I am sure he is, does really astonish me. "Oh, I've no pretension," I could laugh, "to being the only one. From all this it resulted that the false and selfish called her wise, the vulgar and debased termed her charitable, the insolent and unjust dubbed her amiable, the conscientious and benevolent generally at first accepted as valid her claim to be considered one of themselves; but ere long the plating of pretension wore off, the real material appeared below, and they laid her aside as a deception. |
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