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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FEIGNING, ppr. Imagining; inventing; pretending; making a false show.
FEIGNING, n. A false appearance; artful contrivance.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: pretending with intention to deceive [syn: pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling]
2: the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending" [syn: pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Feign Feign, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feigned; p. pr. & vb. n. Feigning.] [OE. feinen, F. feindre (p. pr. feignant), fr. L. fingere; akin to L. figura figure,and E. dough. See Dough, and cf. Figure, Faint, Effigy, Fiction.] 1. To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true. There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. --Neh. vi. 8. The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. --Shak. 2. To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness. --Shak. 3. To dissemble; to conceal. [Obs.] --Spenser.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Feigning Feign"ing, a. That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false. -- Feign"ing*ly, adv.