"pretender" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone who claims a title or a certain level of skill or knowledge that they don't actually possess. For example, "The woman was a pretender to the throne, but her claim was ultimately dismissed."
"In the eyes of Europe you are a pretender to the throne of England, because the marriage of your father, Henry VIII, to your mother, Anne Boleyn, is deemed invalid!" one says.
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It also helped that he attacked philosophy as a puffed-up pretender with no monopoly on deep truths.In fact, for Rorty there weren't really any deep truths at all.
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Rahul Gandhi, the scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that holds Congress together, was supposed to be the pretender.
Like its predecessor as pretender to the LDP's crown, the Socialist Party, it has tended to be a rather tame opposition.
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Dismissed from office by George I and fearing impeachment because of his role in the peace negotiations with France and his intrigues with the Jacobites (the supporters of James Edward, the Old Pretender), Bolingbroke fled to France (March 1715) and became the Old Pretender's secretary of state in July.
Many of these works are set in an invented historical era during the imagined reign of James III of England, who was known as the Old Pretender.
Although the British had not yet become involved in the conflict, the French king Louis XV in January 1744 made Saxe commander of a force that was to invade Great Britain on behalf of Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, the Stuart claimant to the British throne.
It would also give the Old Pretender the prospect of French military aid to launch an invasion against Britain itself.
