The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is…

feign (verb):

1a : to give a false appearance of
 b : to assert as if true
2 archaic a : invent, imagine
                  b : to give fictional representation to
3 obsolete : disguise, conceal

Source : Merriam -Webster

Etymology : Feign is all about faking it, but that hasn’t always been so. In one of its earliest senses, feign meant “to fashion, form, or shape.” That meaning is true to the term’s Latin ancestor: the verb fingere, which also means “to shape.” The current senses of feign still retain the essence of the Latin source, since to feign something, such as surprise or an illness, requires one to fashion an impression or shape an image. Several other English words that trace to the same ancestor refer to things that are shaped with either the hands, as in figure and effigy, or the imagination, as in fiction and figment.

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