10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRETENSIVE»
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pretensive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pretensive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago: On ...
(TTM25 Dec 1994:1) pretensive pretensive adj Socially artificial; putting on airs;
pretending to be more or better than you really are; conceited; pretentious. (< arc
E pretensive 'full of pretense; feigned') ◊ She came and kissed me and start ...
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Reports of Cases in Chancery, Argued and Determined in the ...
Charleston, February, 1839. that the judgment confessed by John Aitken to his co
-defendant, Margaret Thomas, was without any valuable consideration to support
it, but was wholly voluntary, fraudulent and pretensive: and that his honor ought ...
William Rice (state reporter.),
1839
3
Studies in Evidentiality
3.6.3 The pretensive mood Pretensive mood is formed by adding the pretensive
suffix -S°a 'as if to the stem of the main verb plus an appropriate form of the
auxiliary verb. Its main semantics is to express a semblance of an action or state.
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Vernon's annotated Missouri statutes
App. 414. 18. Pretensive venue Courts will not permit plaintiffs to engage in
pretense of joining defendants for sole purpose of obtaining venue. Futrell v. Luhr
Bros., Inc. (App. E.D. 1996) 916 S.W.2d 348, rehearing and/or transfer denied.
Missouri, Vernon Law Book Company, West Publishing Company,
1952
... sufficiently established to determine whether the situation is governed by the
rule which denies enforcement of pretensive agreements or by the rule which
forecloses the use of parol evidence to establish a contemporaneous oral
agreement ...
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The Federal reporter. Second series
There is nothing in the record that would justify an inference that the reason was
pretensive or pretextual; nor did the trial court find that it was pretensive. The
defendant accordingly met any burden that may have rested on it for sustaining
its ...
Pretensive expressing the idea „as if" in the comparative case (-sta) and the word
all which he compares to the Amharic dndd ... hullu; 5. Causal I rendering the
idea of „because" in the dative-instrumental case (-5). Exact equivalents of these
...
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Rhode Island, a Guide to the Smallest State,
About 16 per cent of Rhode Island's land surface is devoted to 'pretensive
farming' — that is, to farm operations carried on by State institutions and by the
owners of country estates who do not work their acres primarily for profit. Rhode
Island ...
Best Books on, Federal Writers' Project,
1937
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South Western Reporter. Second Series: Cases Argued and ...
Plaintiff claims venue was pretensive because plaintiffs joinder of Raines as a
defendant was done solely to create venue in the City of St. Louis under §
508.010, RSMo (1994), the genera] venue statute.2 [4-7] Courts will not permit
plaintiffs to ...
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Negotiated employee benefit plans: a collection of opinions ...
The defendant seeks to bring himself within the usual rule that an agreement
which is purely pretensive and delivered with no intention that it is to be binding
upon either party may be shown by parol evidence to have created no
contractual ...
Richard P. Donaldson, Daryl D. Jonson, Marion V. Larson,
1967
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRETENSIVE»
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pretensive is used in the context of the following news items.
T&T passes Bill to imprison illegal firearm offenders without bail
Nicholas accused the PNM of being pretensive in its care and concern for the people in its constituencies. “The constituencies which the PNM ... «Jamaica Observer, Apr 15»
So Is Buhari Indeed A Religious Fanatic? By Peter Claver Oparah
And another incontrovertible fact; Buhari allows Sundays as work free days for his Christian staff, a feat which the pretensive and hypocritical ... «SaharaReporters.com, Jan 15»
Sierra snares Spiderwick Chronicles
... (I think that was the word you were looking for, not "pretensive"). ... @diablobasher : you sound like one of those pretensive "book worms" ... «GameSpot, Aug 07»