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Look up: pretentious

  1. pretentious
    [adj] - making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Pretentious
    Pre·ten'tious adjective [ Confer French prétentieux . See Pretend .] Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one's; presuming; assuming. -- Pre*ten'tious*ly , adverb - - Pre*ten'tious*ness , noun
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/157

  3. pretentious
    adjective making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; `a pretentious country house`; `a pretentious fraud`; `a pretentious scholarly edition`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  4. Pretentious
    • (a.) Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one`s; presuming; assuming.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  5. pretentious
    pretentious Making claims, explicit or implicit, to some distinction, importance, dignity, or excellence.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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