Pretendant

Quick meaning: Pretendant is a noun meaning (dated) A pretender; a claimant.

Meaning

(dated) A pretender; a claimant.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) A suitor.
2. (dated) Claiming to be someone or something; having a claim.

Example Sentences

Thelwall Salusbury too—then Vicar of Offley, my Cousin, my Pretendant—& my Enemy—of Course, I see today among the Black List in our Newspaper.

Elſe ô how eaſie had it beene for thee / All the pretendant race t’haue laid full low / If thou proceeded hadſt with crueltie, / Not ſuffering anie fatall branch to grow: […]

Firſt you muſt take it for granted, that if his Majeſty could have heard or could conceive that any other had right, (whom theſe pretendant Princes did oppoſe) his reſpect to no Man (never ſo near) could have drawn him againſt his Honour and Conſcience: […]

He would not be serious about Lord Rainford; he made her share in the good-natured slight with which husband and wife always talk over the sorrows of unlucky pretendants. He professed to find something much more admirable in Kimball’s quiet acceptance of the loss he had incurred through Helen: that, he said, was fine, for Kimball was supported by no sentimental considerations, and had no money to back his delicacy.

Word Forms

• pretendants
• pretendent

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pretender, claimer, claimant, claimstaker, petitor, proclaimant.

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