GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   make-believe (?), n. A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. “Childlike make-believe.”  Tylor.
   
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   To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.
   
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   Make-believe, a.
   1. Feigned; insincere. “Make-believe reverence.” G. Eliot.
   
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   2. Imaginary; as, “the child had a make-believe friend to whom he often talked”.
   
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