fayned

Not long after, manie of the court that hitherunto had born a kind of fayned friendship towards him, began now greatly to envie at his progresse and rising in goodness, using manie crooked, backbiting meanes to diffame his vertues with the black markes of hypocrisie.

The Lady of the Lake 1810

Not long after, manie of the court that hitherunto had born a kind of fayned friendship towards him, began now greatly to envie at his progresse and rising in goodness, using manie crooked, backbiting meanes to diffame his vertues with the black markes of hypocrisie.

The Lady of the Lake Walter Scott 1801

And hauing ended her fayned prayer, she counterfaited a sleepe, and so continued the space of twoo or three houres, whiche caused all the companie to withdrawe themselues, excepte the poore Duke, who would not depart from her vntil she waked, and in the meane time ceassed not to praye to God for the health of his loyall spouse.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

"Dyuers men holde oppynyon that there was no suche Arthur and that alle suche bookes as been maad of hym ben fayned and fables by cause that somme cronycles make of him no mencyon ne remember him noo thynge ne of his knyghtes."

Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" U. Waldo Cutler

My Lorde must be aduertised hereof, that the house maye be purged of suche a plague and infection, that he maye euidentlye vnderstande the hypocrisye of her that so longe time hath kept close her incontinencie, vnder the vaile of fayned chastitie.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

Purgatorie, and that it is a fayned thing, any man, after this lyfe, to be punished in Purgatorie.

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

And they may be fayned aswell as true: as those fables of

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Examples, some be taken out of hystories, some of tales, some of fayned argumẽtes, in comedies; and bothe sortes be dilated by parable and comparacion.

A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry

Whereupon it is fayned that _Amphion_ and _Orpheus_, two Poets of the first ages, one of them, to wit _Amphion_, builded vp cities, and reared walles with the stones that came in heapes to the sound of his harpe, figuring thereby the mollifying of hard and stonie hearts by his sweete and eloquent perswasion.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

_Dialogismus_ whych is how often a short or long communicacion is fayned to a person, accordyng to the comelines of it.

A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry