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dissimulation |
2 definitions found 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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