Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a feigned manner; deceitfully; falsely.
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Or, "I came not to call the righteous," that is, the feignedly righteous, those who boasted of their righteousness as the Pharisees, but those that owned themselves sinners.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew 1225?-1274 1842
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Learn from this in future not to extinguish your spirit even for a moment during your prayer; pray in spirit and truth, unremittingly, and not flattering the Lord during prayer by one single word -- that is, not pronouncing a single word feignedly, hypocritically; let your prayer be only the expression of truth, the mouthpiece of the Holy Ghost, and do not let it serve by a single word the enemy's lie, nor be in any way the organ of the Devil.
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And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
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And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
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Halting, my strange traveller chanted in a feignedly senile and tremulous voice, as he beat time with his foot:
Through Russia 2003
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And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 3. 1999
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And, indeed, he does not speak feignedly, nor pretend something different from what he has in his mind.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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As if truly he had prayed in vain; or had feignedly professed that the remedy was in the hand of God.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Peter shows, that when, on a previous occasion, she called Abraham lord, she did not do so feignedly; since he proposes her, as an example of voluntary subjection, to pious and chaste matrons.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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Therefore I do not doubt that he feignedly reproved his son, from a desire to appease contention.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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