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pretender

Claimant to a throne. In British history, the term is widely used to describe the Old Pretender (James Edward Stuart) and his son, the Young Pretender (Charles Edward Stuart).



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Transformer, shape-shifter, prankster, dissimulator, deceiver, mediator the folk trickster figure that exists in practically every human culture serves a necessary function: he (and, less often, she) ensures that social constructs do not become or remain what Gerald Vizenor calls "terminal creeds.
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