Third-person singular present tense of feign; to pretend or put on a false appearance of something.
From Old French feindre, ultimately from Latin fingere meaning 'to shape' or 'to form,' which evolved to mean 'to fabricate' or 'to pretend.'
Feign comes from the same root as 'figure'—both involve shaping something, except with feign you're shaping a false image of reality instead of actual clay or stone!
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