Feignest
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: 1 Kings 14:6
- Last Reference: Nehemiah 6:8
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H908 Used 1 time
FEIGN, verb transitive fane. [Latin fingo. The Latin forms fictum, fictus, whence figura, figure, also fucus.]
1. To invent or imagine; to form an idea or conception of something not real.
There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. Nehemiah 6:8.
2. To make a show of; to pretend; to assume a false appearance; to counterfeit.
I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner. 2 Samuel 14:2.
She feigns a laugh.
3. To represent falsely; to pretend; to form and relate a fictitious tale.
The poet did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods.
4. To dissemble; to conceal. obsolete
FEIGNED, participle passive Invented; devised; imagined; assumed.
FEIGNEDLY, adverb In fiction; in pretense; not really.
FEIGNEDNESS, noun Fiction; pretense; deceit.
FEIGNER, noun One who feigns; an inventor; a deviser of fiction.
FEIGNING, participle present tense Imagining; inventing; pretending; making a false show.
FEIGNING, noun A false appearance; artful contrivance.
FEIGNINGLY, adverb With false appearance.
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: 1 Kings 14:6
- Last Reference: Nehemiah 6:8
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H908 Used 1 time