Make"-be*lieve` (?), n.
A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention.
"Childlike
make-believe."
Tylor.
To forswear self-delusion and make-believe.
M. Arnold.
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Make"-be*lieve`, a.
Feigned; insincere.
"
Make-believe reverence."<-- imaginary -->
G. Eliot.
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