beignet | (noun) a deep-fried, yeast-raised doughnut dusted with confectioners' sugar | Synonyms: French fritter |
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deign | (verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: condescend, descend |
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feign | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, dissemble, pretend, sham |
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(verb) make a pretence of | Synonyms: assume, sham, simulate |
feigned | (adjective) not genuine | - |
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feigning | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation |
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(noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, pretence, pretense |
foreign | (adjective) relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world | Synonyms: strange |
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(adjective) of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own) | - |
(adjective) not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source | Synonyms: extraneous |
(adjective) not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something | Synonyms: alien |
foreigner | (noun) a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country | Synonyms: alien, noncitizen, outlander |
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(noun) someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group | Synonyms: outsider |
foreignness | (noun) the quality of being alien or not native | Synonyms: curiousness, strangeness |
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nonsovereign | (adjective) (of peoples and political bodies) controlled by outside forces | Synonyms: nonautonomous |
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peignoir | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, neglige, negligee, wrapper |
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reign | (noun) royal authority; the dominion of a monarch | Synonyms: sovereignty |
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(noun) the period during which a monarch is sovereign | - |
(noun) a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful | - |
(verb) have sovereign power | - |
(verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: dominate, predominate, prevail, rule |
reigning | (adjective) exercising power or authority | Synonyms: regnant, ruling |
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reignite | (verb) ignite anew, as of something burning | - |
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seigneur | (noun) a man of rank in the ancient regime | Synonyms: feudal lord, seignior |
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seigneury | (noun) the position and authority of a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudal lordship, seigniory |
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(noun) the estate of a seigneur | Synonyms: seigniory, signory |
seignior | (noun) a man of rank in the ancient regime | Synonyms: feudal lord, seigneur |
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seigniorage | (noun) charged by a government for coining bullion | - |
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seigniory | (noun) the position and authority of a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudal lordship, seigneury |
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(noun) the estate of a seigneur | Synonyms: seigneury, signory |
sovereign | (adjective) greatest in status or authority or power | Synonyms: supreme |
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(adjective) (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces | Synonyms: autonomous, independent, self-governing |
(noun) a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right | Synonyms: crowned head, monarch |
sovereignty | (noun) the authority of a state to govern another state | - |
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(noun) government free from external control | - |
(noun) royal authority; the dominion of a monarch | Synonyms: reign |
unfeigned | (adjective) not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed | Synonyms: genuine, true |
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unfeignedly | (adverb) with sincerity; without pretense | Synonyms: sincerely, truly |
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