Counterfeiting vs Feint - What's the difference?
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The act of one who counterfeits.
* Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
To make a feint, or mock attack.
(to make a counterfeit move to confuse an opponent)
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(obsolete) Feigned; counterfeit.
* John Locke
(fencing, boxing, war) (of an attack) directed toward a different part from the intended strike
A movement made to confuse the opponent, a dummy
That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
* Spectator
(fencing, boxing, war) An offensive movement resembling an attack in all but its continuance
The narrowest rule used in the production of lined writing paper (C19: Variant of FAINT)
Counterfeiting is a related term of feint.
As verbs the difference between counterfeiting and feint
is that counterfeiting is while feint is to make a feint, or mock attack.As nouns the difference between counterfeiting and feint
is that counterfeiting is the act of one who counterfeits while feint is a movement made to confuse the opponent, a dummy.As an adjective feint is
(obsolete) feigned; counterfeit.counterfeiting
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward)
feint
English
Verb
(en verb)Adjective
(-)- Dressed up into any feint appearance of it.
Noun
(en noun)- Courtley's letter is but a feint to get off.
