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Pretension
A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.
📖 Definitions of "Pretension"
noun
- 1
A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.
- 2
Pretentiousness.
verb
- 1
To apply tension to an object before some other event or process.
- 2
To apply tension to reinforcing strands before concrete is poured in.
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