Definition 2024
prætenses
prætenses
English
Noun
prætenses
- plural of prætense
- 17th Century, The Seuen Dayes Of The Weeke, in Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana (T. Bensley and Son), volume I, page 41:
- (I hope these hard words doe not fright your senses
- I sweare tis not our meaninge, gratious vmpeere,
- To ravish you with showe of bad prætenses)
