preˈtendable, a. rare.
[f. pretend v. + -able.]
That may be pretended or professed.
| 1657 J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 592 That dwindling, puling puritanical expressions of one flock..&c. equally pretendable (if taken alone) by Quakers, as by them. Ibid. 628 Motives to Unity..some of them equally pretendable nay actually pretended by Turks, Hereticks, etc. |