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dissimulation|dɪˌsɪmjuːˈleɪʃən|
Also 4–6 -symul-, 5 -symyl-, 4–6 -acion, -acioun, -acyoun, -atyon.
[a. OF. dissimulation (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. dissimulātiōn-em, n. of action from dissimulāre: see dissimule.]
1. The action of dissimulating or dissembling; concealment of what really is, under a feigned semblance of something different; feigning, hypocrisy.
c1386Chaucer Sompn. T. 415 He wolde þat the frere had been on fire With his false dissymulacion. 1393Gower Conf. I. 74 O derke ypocrisie, Thurgh whos dissimulacion..I am þus wickedly deceiued. 1494Fabyan Chron. vi. ccv. 217 Thus with shame he ended, that in falshode and dissymylacion had contynued moche of his lyfe. 1538Starkey England ii. ii. 191 Hys owne clyent..by hys dyssymulatyon and fare wordys was interteynyd in long sute. 1611Bible Rom. xii. 9 Let loue be without dissimulation. 1710Steele Tatler No. 213 ⁋1 Simulation is a Pretence of what is not, and Dissimulation a Concealment of what is. 1780Cowper Table T. 129 Smooth Dissimulation, skilled to grace A devil's purpose with an angel's face. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. I. 238 An indifferent master of the tricks of dissimulation to which he was reduced.
b. with a and pl. An instance of this; an act of dissembling. Obs. or arch.
c1384Chaucer H. Fame ii. 179 Moo dissymulacions And feyned reparacions. c1400Three Kings Cologne 13 Þe kyng Ezechias of verry Innocency of hert made a dissimilation. 1582N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. lxiii. 129 a, All those dissimulations which he did vse.
†c. Dissimulated or disguised form. Obs. rare.
1671Milton P.R. i. 497 Satan, bowing low His gray dissimulation, disappeared Into thin air diffused.
†2. A fanciful name for a ‘company’ or flock of small birds. Obs.
1486Bk. St. Albans F vj a, A Dissimulacion of breddis. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 311/1 A flock of small Birds, or a dissimulation of Birds. |