dissemble
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin dissimulare.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
dissemble (third-person singular simple present dissembles, present participle dissembling, simple past and past participle dissembled)
- (transitive) To disguise or conceal something.
- Shakespeare
- Dissemble all your griefs and discontents.
- J. P. Kemble
- Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love.
- Shakespeare
- (transitive) To feign.
- 1681, John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel
- And like a lion, slumb'ring in the way,
- Or sleep-dissembling, while he waits his prey.
- Tatler
- He soon dissembled a sleep.
- 1681, John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel
- (transitive) To deliberately ignore something; to pretend not to notice.
- (intransitive) To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings.
- XVII century, John Dryden, Cymon And Iphigenia; from Boccace
- While to his arms the blushing bride he took,
- To seeming sadness she composed her look;
- As if by force subjected to his will,
- Though pleased, dissembling, and a woman still.
- XVII century, John Dryden, Cymon And Iphigenia; from Boccace
Translations[edit]
to disguise or conceal something
Translations[edit]
to feign
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to deliberately ignore something
to falsely hide one's opinions or feelings
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