Usually means: Acting under false appearance, facade.
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  1. pretence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pretence: Merriam-Webster
  3. pretence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pretence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pretence: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pretence: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pretence, pretence: Wordnik
  8. pretence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pretence: Wiktionary
  10. pretence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pretence: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Pretence, pretence: Dictionary.com
  13. Pretence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. pretence: Rhymezone
  15. Pretence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. pretence: FreeDictionary.org
  17. pretence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. pretence: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pretence: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pretence: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pretence: Idioms

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noun:  British standard spelling of pretense.

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