actor, blagueur, charlatan, faker, humbug, man of straw, performer, poseur, ringer, sham, usurper
Definitionn. a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler
Last update: September 12, 2015
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He's a pretender, pure and simple. [Please select]
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As Don Carlos is still a pretender, MacIver is still a general. [Please select]
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He was not less false to the Pretender than to the King, to Ormond than to Walpole. [Please select]
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They saw one upstart pretender to empire succeed another with complete indifference. [Please select]
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A pretender to the crown arose in a certain Amon-mes, or Amon-meses, who contested the throne with Seti II. [Please select]
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Instead of a kingdom, he inherited nothing but the nickname of "Pretender," which he in turn transmitted to his son. [Please select]
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[2] Prince James Edward Stuart, the so-called "Old Pretender," and his son, Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the so-called "Young Pretender." [Please select]
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(2) To compel Prince James Edward, the so-called "Pretender" (SS490, 491) to quit France. [Please select]
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[2] William of Orange stood next in order of succession to Mary and Anne (provided the claim of the newly born Prince James, the so-called "Pretender," was set aside [SS490, 491]). [Please select]
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James Edward, son of James II, believed to the last that his half-sister, Queen Anne, would name him her successor;[1] instead of that it was she who first dubbed him the "Pretender" (S491). [Please select]
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