DISSIMULATION

dissimulation. dissimulation, dissembling

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dissimulation. Dissimulation, n. a dissembling, hypocrisy, guile

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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.