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Pretensions
- noun - a false or unsupportable quality
- the advancing of a claim; "his pretension to the crown"; "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort"
- the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
Pretentious
- adjective - (of a display) tawdry or vulgar
- intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat"
- making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"
Preterition
- noun - suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted
Preteritive
- - Used only or chiefly in the preterit or past tenses, as certain verbs.
Preterlegal
- - Exceeding the limits of law.
Prevenience
- - The act of going before; anticipation.
Preventable
- adjective - capable of being prevented; "conscious of preventable human suffering"- A.L.Guerard
Preventions
- noun - the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza"