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pretender History a person who mounts a claim, as to a throne or title 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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| Transformer, shape-shifter, prankster, dissimulator, deceiver, mediator the folk trickster figure that exists in practically every human culture serves a necessary function: he (and, less often, she) ensures that social constructs do not become or remain what Gerald Vizenor calls "terminal creeds. |
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