dissimulate

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Once that day Alixe said to me, breaking off as her story went on, "Oh, Robert, when I see what power I have to dissimulate--for it is that, call it by what name you will--when I see how I enjoy accomplishing against all difficulty, how I can blind even so skilled a diplomatist as Monsieur Doltaire, I almost tremble.

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  1. transitive verb To disguise (one's intentions, for example) under a feigned appearance. See Synonyms at disguise.
  2. intransitive verb To conceal one's true feelings or intentions.

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  • The words “I love you” are not criminal, that is true, but their sequel frightens us, hence we find means to dissimulate, and close our eyes to the liabilities they carry with them. —  Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos, the Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century
  • "I am learning to dissimulate," she added in a moment. —  The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II)
  • He determined to return as quickly as possible, to get rid of such an evil company, with whom he thought it necessary to dissimulate, although they were a mutinous set, and though he also had with him many good men; for it was not a fitting time for dealing out punishment The Admiral got into the boat and went up the river[216-1] which is near, toward the S.S.W. —  The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503
  • He was too young to dissimulate, too young to spare them. —  Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air
  • Men are very surprising at times One must know how to dissimulate, my dear." —  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 2 (of 8)
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English dissimulaten, from Latin dissimulāre, dissimulāt- : dis-, dis- + simulāre, to simulate; see simulate.

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  1. from Latin dissimulatus, past participle of dissimulare, dissemble: see dissimule and dissemble, and cf. dissimilate.
  2. Middle English, from Latin dissimulatus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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