Definitions
an artful or simulated semblance
Word origin
From Latin praetextum (“an ornament, etc., wrought in front, a pretense”), neuter of praetextus, past participle of praetexere (“to weave before, fringe or border, allege”).
Used in a sentence
“The reporter called the company on the pretext of trying to resolve a consumer complaint.”
“[T]hey would ſay [...] that I had quarrell'd / My brother purpoſely, thereby to finde / An apt pretext, to baniſh them my houſe.”
“On every kind of pretext she would run away from work [...]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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