MAKE-BELIEVE

n. a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

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.

2.
a.

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

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