prætentious
English
Adjective
prætentious (comparative more prætentious, superlative most prætentious)
- (rare, pedantic or humorous) Alternative spelling of pretentious
- 1996 January 6, “Dan Mazer”, bit.listserv.bgrass-l (Google group): Poaverty:
- Poa Secunda and John Secada don’t play bluegrass; and I’m not prætentious enough to pretend I can identify Kentucky Bluegrass, although there was a band by that name (Poa Prætensis) in the mid-‛70s.
- 1999 August 19, “Dave Van Domelen”, rec.arts.comics.marvel.universe (Google group): RANT: Dave’s Marvel Rant: Cap, TBolts, Panther:
- Guess I was just being prætentious in my spelling. }->
- 2005 February 15, “Arval”, rec.org.sca (Google group): Terminology: Mediaeval or Medieval?:
- It’s praetentious.
- 1996 January 6, “Dan Mazer”, bit.listserv.bgrass-l (Google group): Poaverty:
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