pretensions

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Pretensions to high culture notwithstanding, the New York art scene is a plenty valid setting for the internecine warfare that is reality television’s gasoline.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2012

In a word, he rebuff'd me to such a degree, as was sufficient to make me quite renounce my Pretensions.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

Little by little the book has grown until it has come perilously near the condition in which it might be thought to have Pretensions.

From Jock of the Bushveld by Fitzpatrick, Percy, Sir

D. Pretensions of the lower classes in consequence of a democratic constitution.

From Principles Of Political Economy by Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)

Pretensions of the United States in 1818, 142.

From The Oregon Territory Its History and Discovery by Twiss, Travers