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prætence

prætence is the obsolete spelling of pretence.

Meaning of pretence

Noun

pretence (countable and uncountable, plural pretences)

  1. British standard spelling of pretense.

Forms of prætence

pluralprætences

Questions about prætence

What is prætence the obsolete spelling of?
Prætence is the obsolete spelling of pretence.

Words near prætence in the dictionary

  1. præsumeth
  2. præsuming
  3. præsumption
  4. præsumptions
  5. præsumptuous
  6. prætence
  7. prætences
  8. prætend
  9. prætends
  10. prætense
  11. prætenses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prætence (page history and authors); pretence (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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