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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
dissimulation
n : the act of deceiving [syn: {deception}, {deceit}, {dissembling}]
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