Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate. · To imagine; to invent; to pretend to do something. · To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent; to feint.
From Middle English feynen, feinen, borrowed from Old French feindre (“to pretend”), from Latin fingere (“to form, shape, invent”). Compare French feignant (present participle of feindre, literally “feigning”). Also compare feint, figment and fiction.
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