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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
protend .
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Examples
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I hope it all gets loose in the next episode, I think Serena walked in on something like really bad or something - cus like you heard her say "You protended to be the little innocent girl who walked in..." and then Serena talks over her.
First Look: New GOSSIP GIRL Georgina Sparks | the TV addict 2008
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Elinor listened, seated in a rocking-chair, restlessly clapping her protended ankles together.
The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage George Bernard Shaw 1903
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Margaret, equally furious, catches his protended countenance a box on the cheek.
Fanny's First Play George Bernard Shaw 1903
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Beethoven's Ninth Symphony taken at a wrong tempo than a duchess by losing a diamond necklace, I was indifferent to the repulsive fact that if I had fallen in love with the duchess I did not possess a morning suit in which I could reasonably have expected her to touch me with the furthest protended pair of tongs; and I did not see that to remedy this
The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage George Bernard Shaw 1903
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The immense triumphal arch, a gigantic mouth protended to swallow up the Cathedral!
The Torrent Entre Naranjos Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897
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Elsie, on the contrary, was excessively and painfully sensitive, as if her nature constantly protended an invisible multitude of half-spiritual, half - nervous antennae, which shrunk and trembled in every current of air at all below their own temperature.
Adela Cathcart, Volume 1 George MacDonald 1864
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Abantes followed, with flowing locks behind, warriors skilled with protended spears of ash, to break the corslets on the breasts of their enemies.
The Iliad of Homer (1873) 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1840
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The fore part of the belly shell towards its extremity, is formed somewhat like a spade, extends forward near three inches, and is about an inch and an half in breadth; its extremity is a little bifid, the posterior division of the belly shell, is likewise protended backwards considerably, and is deeply bifurcated.
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I was rite he had a afere with my coworker who protended to be my friend.
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In Kirby and Spence's _Entomology_, vol.ii. p. 224., they mention "the terrific and protended jaws of the stag-beetle of Europe, the _Lucanus
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