单词 | dissimulation |
释义 | dissimulationn. 1. a. The action of dissimulating or dissembling; concealment of what really is, under a feigned semblance of something different; feigning, hypocrisy. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [noun] foxingc1220 feignc1320 faintise1340 simulation1340 dissimulingc1374 likenessc1384 dissimulationc1386 coverture1393 dissemblationc1425 assimulationa1450 dissemblec1480 fiction1483 dissemblinga1500 irony1502 dissimulance1508 dissembly?c1550 blindation1588 counterfeisance1590 misseeming1590 supposing1596 dissemblance1602 guise1662 dissimulating1794 make-believe1794 representation1805 sham-Abra(ha)m1828 make-belief1837 pretence1862 make-believing1867 postiche1876 kid-stakes1916 smoke and mirrors1980 c1386 G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale 415 He wolde þat the frere had been on fire With his false dissymulacion. 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 74 O derke ypocrisie, Thurgh whos dissimulacion..I am þus wickedly deceiued. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccv. f. cxxviv Thus with shame he ended, that infalshode [sic] and dissymylacion had contynued moche of his lyfe. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 127 Hys owne clyent..by hys dyssymulatyon & fare w[...] was interteynyd in long sute. 1611 Bible (King James) Rom. xii. 9 Let loue be without dissimulation . View more context for this quotation 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 213. ⁋1 Simulation is a Pretence of what is not, and Dissimulation a Concealment of what is. 1780 W. Cowper Table Talk 129 Smooth Dissimulation, skilled to grace A devil's purpose with an angel's face. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. 238 An indifferent master of the tricks of dissimulation to which he was reduced. b. with a and plural. An instance of this; an act of dissembling. Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [noun] > act or instance of dissimulationc1384 likenessc1384 pretencec1487 profession1526 masqueradea1670 fobbery1688 artificialism1835 barney1859 c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame ii. 179 Moo dissymulacions And feyned reparacions. c1400 Three Kings Cologne 13 Þe kyng Ezechias of verry Innocency of hert made a dissimilation. 1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias lxiii. 129 a All those dissimulations which he did vse. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > [noun] > disguised condition disguisea1400 shape1597 disguisedness1615 in the serving ofa1616 dissimulation1671 incog1813 incognito1822 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 498 Satan bowing low His gray dissimulation, disappear'd Into thin Air diffus'd. View more context for this quotation ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > [noun] > small > group of dissimulation1486 1486 Bk. St. Albans F vj a A Dissimulacion of breddis. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 311/1 A flock of small Birds, or a dissimulation of Birds. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1384 |
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