pretension

To folly, to pretension, to presumption, he showed but slight forbearance.

Where the pretension is higher, the test may justly be more severe.

The Utopian ideas which I have expressed have in no way the pretension to be new.

I speak generally, and not with any pretension to exactness.

He has pretension; he wishes and attempts things beyond his force.

I have no pretension to delay my reader by any details of the trial itself.

I shall be able to feed them; but how to lodge them with any pretension to comfort is more than I can see.'

You don't set up the pretension of dictating to me what I am to do with what's my own.

You don't set up the pretension of dictating to me what I am to do with what is my own.

She reveres in my person a genius to which I make no pretension.