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noun
1.
a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack: military feints; the feints of a skilled fencer.
2.
a feigned or assumed appearance: His air of approval was a feint to conceal his real motives.
verb (used without object)
3.
to make a feint.
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verb (used with object)
4.
to make a feint at; deceive with a feint.
5.
to make a false show of; simulate.
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feint
1670s, from Fr. feinte "a feint, sham," from O.Fr. feint, originally fem. pp. of feindre (see feign). Borrowed early 14c. as adj., but now obsolete in that sense. The verb "to make a sham attack" is first attested 1833. Related: Feinted; feinting.
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