PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No. Its recorded Middle English field includes make, fabricate, make a likeness, dissemble, and pretend.
/feɪn/ · verb
To invent, fabricate, make a likeness, or pretend; borrowed through Anglo-French from Latin fingere, to shape or fashion.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Publishes make, fabricate, likeness, dissemble, and pretend.
Middle English sense inventoryThe modern false-appearance center is a semantic narrowing, not the entire ancestry.