prætension

plural prætensions

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of pretension.

   The Lord Commiſsioner ſheweth, that it is his Majeſties will that the Parliament be prorogated to the 2. of June, and that by his Majeſties authority only: of the prorogation, the prætenſion is pag. 30.

   1640, The Proceedings of the Commissioners Sent from the Parliament of Scotland to the King, page 52

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   So theſe pretended inſpired men though they flie high, and ſeem to feed of nothing but free truth, as they draw it from Gods own breathing; yet they took their ground firſt from the Text, though they ran a deal of fancyfull diviſion upon it; and if a man watch them, he ſhall finde them fall flat upon the Text again, and be but as other Mortals are for all their free prætenſions and extraordinary aſſiſtances.

   1655, Alazonomastix Philalethes [pseudonym; Henry More], Observations upon Anthroposophia Theomagica, and Anima Magica Abscondita, London: […] J. Flesher, page 89

   I HOPE this Interruption may præſume ſome Prætenſions of a Pardon, after You have been pleas’d to conſider the Prævaling Motives of my many Obligations.[…]He Had then out Rival’d his Neighbour’s Prætenſions, and far beyond a Mauſolæum of Braſs, and Marble, extended a Living Monument of Himſelf round the Globe, to the Aſſiſtance of the Beſt Familys, and the perpetual Advantage of England.

   1705, [Lewis] Maidwell, An Essay upon the Necessity and Excellency of Education. […], London: […] S. B. and J. B.