Category:Make-believe

Make"-be*lieve`, n.

Defn: A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.

make-believe Make"-be*lieve`, a.

Defn: Feigned; insincere. "Make-believe reverence." G. Eliot.