Protend vs Conceal - What's the difference?
protend | conceal |
(obsolete) To hold out; to stretch forth.
(lb) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed .
As verbs the difference between protend and conceal
is that protend is (obsolete) to hold out; to stretch forth while conceal is (lb) to hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.protend
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Verb
(en verb)- With his protended lance he makes defence. — Dryden.