undissembled

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ dissembled.

Adjective

undissembled (comparative more undissembled, superlative most undissembled)

1. Not dissembled; genuine, unfaked.
   • 1722, Richard Steele, The Conscious Lovers. A Comedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], published 1723, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 37:

     I ſavv the reſpectful Dovvncaſt of his Eye, vvhen you catcht him gazing at you during the Muſick: He, I vvarrant, vvas ſurpriz'd, as if he had been taken ſtealing your VVatch. O! the undiſſembled Guilty Look!

   • 1778, Fanny Burney, Evelina: Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World, Letter LXVIII: EVELINA TO THE REV. MR. VILLARS. Clifton, Sept. 28th.,

     He paid me the most high-flown compliments; and frequently and forcibly seized my hand, though I repeatedly, and with undissembled anger, drew it back.

   • 1815, Samuel Stanhope Smith, A Comprehensive View of the Leading and Most Important Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion, page 198:

     […] and which, in every part of it, was full of grace and truth: that is, conspicuously distinguished by the most amiable condescension, and benignity of disposition and manners, and by the most undissembled and inviolable sincerity.

   • 1835, Jonathan Going, J. F. Schroeder, J. M. Krebs, J. Tackaberry (editors), Memoirs of Rev. Samuel Pearce, in The Christian Library, Volumes 3-4, page 376:

     I write to-night lest my delay appear tedious to the dear and deserving object of my most undissembled love.