Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being feigned; fictitiousness; simulation; deceit.
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Examples
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Therefore, if you will that I take any meddling in this process, first cause all these papers to be burnt; secondly, make the two gentlemen come personally before me, and afterwards, when I shall have heard them, I will tell you my opinion freely without any feignedness or dissimulation whatsoever.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Therefore, if you will that I take any meddling in this process, first cause all these papers to be burnt; secondly, make the two gentlemen come personally before me, and afterwards, when I shall have heard them, I will tell you my opinion freely without any feignedness or dissimulation whatsoever.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Therefore, if you will that I take any meddling in this process, first cause all these papers to be burnt; secondly, make the two gentlemen come personally before me, and afterwards, when I shall have heard them, I will tell you my opinion freely without any feignedness or dissimulation whatsoever.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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