different between pretense vs prepense

English

Alternative forms

• pretence (Only correct spelling in the UK, the Republic of Ireland, and Commonwealth countries and historical use in the United States)
• prætense (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French pretensse, from Late Latin praet?nsus, past participle of Latin praetend? (“to pretend”), from prae- (“before”) + tend? (“to stretch”); see pretend.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?i?t?ns/
• Hyphenation: pre?tense

Noun

pretense (countable and uncountable, plural pretenses) (American spelling)

1. (US) A false or hypocritical profession

2. Intention or purpose not real but professed.

   with only a pretense of accuracy

3. An unsupported claim made or implied.
4. An insincere attempt to reach a specific condition or quality.

Synonyms

• affectation denotes deception for the sake of escape from punishment or an awkward situation
• false pretense
• fiction
• imitation
• pretext
• sham
• subterfuge

• See also Thesaurus:pretext

Related terms

• pretend
• pretender
• pretension
• pretentious
• pretentiousness

Translations

Further reading

• pretense in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• pretense in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• pretense at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Petersen, pre-teens, preteens, terpenes

Spanish

Verb

pretense

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of pretensar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of pretensar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of pretensar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of pretensar.

English

Etymology

Back-formation from prepensed, probably from Anglo-Norman prepenser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???p?ns/

Adjective

prepense

1. Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived, premeditated.

See also

• malice prepense

Verb

prepense (third-person singular simple present prepenses, present participle prepensing, simple past and past participle prepensed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To weigh or consider beforehand; to intend.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Governour

     All these thinges prepensed and gathered together seriously

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xi:

     submit you to high prouidence, / And euer in your noble hart prepense, / That all the sorrow in the world is lesse, / Then vertues might [...].

2. (obsolete) To deliberate beforehand.