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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
feign/feɪn/

▶verb pretend to be affected by (a feeling, state, or injury).

– origin ME: from OFr. feign-, stem of feindre, from L. fingere ‘mould, contrive’; cf. fiction and figment.

'feign' also found in these Oxford entries:

dummy - faint - feint - fiction - figment - possum

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