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De - Pt| English Dictionary: dissimulation | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Dissimulation \Dis*sim`u*la"tion\, n. [L. dissimulatio: cf. F. dissimulation.] The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy. Let love be without dissimulation. --Rom. xii. 9. Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and arguments that he is not that he is. --Bacon. Simulation is a pretense of what is not, and dissimulation a concealment of what is. --Tatler. | |
