pretender

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PRETEND'ER, noun One who makes a show of something not real; one who lays claim to any thing. 1. In English history, the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who lays claim to the crown of Great Britain, but is excluded by law.
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