Both Uses of
feigned
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- Pictures of life, scenes of passion or sentiment, wit, humor, and pathos, were all thrown away, or worse than thrown away, on Clifford; either because he lacked an experience by which to test their truth, or because his own griefs were a touch-stone of reality that few feigned emotions could withstand.†
Chpt 10 *feigned = pretended (made a pretense of)
- Will he bear about with him,—no odious grin of feigned benignity, insolent in its pretence, and loathsome in its falsehood,—but the tender sadness of a contrite heart, broken, at last, beneath its own weight of sin?†
Chpt 18
Definition:
pretended -- usually pretending to feel something