Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of dissembling or dissimulating; dissimulation.
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Examples
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Then Charites, awaking from sleepe, began to renew her dolour, to teare her garments, and to beate her armes with her comely hands, howbeit she revealed the vision which she saw to no manner of person, but dissimuling that she knew no part of the mischiefe, devised with her selfe how she might be revenged on the traitor, and finish her owne life to end and knit up all sorrow.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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Yet he dissimuling, they took him by the hand and his wife and two daughters, because that God should spare them, and led them out of the city.
The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900
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Then answered the sons of Jacob to Shechem and his father in guile, dissimuling as they had not known the ravishment of their sister: We may not do that ye desire, ne give our sister to a man uncircumcised. it is
The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900
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Then Charites, awaking from sleepe, began to renew her dolour, to teare her garments, and to beate her armes with her comely hands, howbeit she revealed the vision which she saw to no manner of person, but dissimuling that she knew no part of the mischiefe, devised with her selfe how she might be revenged on the traitor, and finish her owne life to end and knit up all sorrow.
The Golden Asse 1566
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