Dissimulation

Word DISSIMULATION
Character 13
Hyphenation dis sim u la tion
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Dissimulation"

What do we mean by dissimulation?

The act of concealing the truth; hypocrisy or deception.

Hiding one's feelings or intentions.

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The word "dissimulation" in example sentences

Still we have our limits beyond which we call dissimulation treachery. ❋ George Eliot (1849)

So far am I from forbidding these officially to check the undue license of kings, that if they connive at kings when they tyrannise and insult over the humbler of the people, I affirm that their dissimulation is not free from nefarious perfidy, because they fraudulently betray the liberty of the people, while knowing that, by the ordinance of God, they are its appointed guardians. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A course of lying, of deceit and dissimulation, is that which every good man dreads and which we are all concerned to beg of ❋ Unknown (1721)

My immediate reaction is that his article feels kind of like an ambush, can it be called dissimulation or subterfuge? ❋ Terry Nelson (2006)

Wherefore, although he did not lie in words, yet with respect to the matter of fact, his dissimulation was a lie, by implication. ❋ 1509-1564 (1996)

Being a woman she understood perfectly the art of dissimulation, which is a necessary accomplishment, a thousand circumstances requiring its exercise for the sake of her security, peace, and comfort. ❋ Robinson, Charles Henry (1903)

[387] His dissimulation was his disregard of the divine call in the vision described in § 21. ❋ Of Clairvaux Bernard (1899)

His reserve might by the ill-natured have been termed dissimulation, inasmuch as when asked by the ladies of the embassy what had become of the young person who had amused them that day so cleverly he gave it out that her whereabouts was uncertain and her destiny probably obscure; he let it be supposed in a word that his benevolence had scarcely survived an accidental, a charitable occasion. ❋ Henry James (1879)

They know the difference between darkness and light; and know that genuine love consists in manifesting chastity of heart, which lives upon love alone, and does not pride itself on dissimulation, which is a vice. ❋ Unknown (1855)

Hitherto she had been answering in monosyllables all attempts of the great man to draw her into conversation; but now, observing how Isaura blushed and looked down, that strange faculty in women, which we men call dissimulation, and which in them is truthfulness to their own nature, enabled her to carry off the sharpest anguish she had ever experienced, by a sudden burst of levity of spirit. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

Image available produce falsehood; or, if in some few instances the deeply imbibed fear of future and unknown punishment should restrain from direct falsehood, it will produce a habit of dissimulation, which is still worse. ❋ Unknown (1825)

For as to this new virtue of feigning and dissimulation, which is now in so great credit, I mortally hate it; and of all vices find none that evidences so much baseness and meanness of spirit. ❋ Michel De Montaigne (1562)

You also learn about Ayman Adh-Dhawahiri's obsession with secrecy, and his propensity toward "dissimulation" at least in appearance and in resorting to disguises. ❋ As'ad (2005)

Wherefore since hypocrisy is a kind of dissimulation, whereby a man simulates a character which is not his, as stated in the preceding article, it follows that it is directly opposed to truth whereby a man shows himself in life and speech to be what he is, as stated in _Ethic. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

To label this word a "dissimulation" or "a somewhat confused utterance" or a mere ❋ 1892-1972 (1942)

The word "dissimulation" expresses the fact of the gray hairs assumed, the purpose of deceit, the cringing attitude, and adds a vague effect of power. ❋ Walter Alexander Raleigh (1891)

The 'dissimulation' of the Authorised Version only covers half the ground. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

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