imposture

From Middle French imposture, from Late Latin impostura, Latin impostus

imposture (plural impostures)

1. The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition
   • 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 292-293:

     There is something very horrible in the laugh of a dying man: Hovering on the verge of both worlds, he seems to give the lie to both, and proclaim the enjoyments of one, and the hopes of another, alike an imposture.

   Synonym: cheating

• imposture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• imposture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

imposture f (plural impostures)

1. imposture

• “imposture” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

imposture f

1. plural of impostura

• stupiremo