Meanings
noun
- pluralplural of prætense
(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)
17th Century, The Seuen Dayes Of The Weeke, in Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana (T. Bensley and Son), volume I, page 41
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