单词 | dissimulator |
释义 | dissimulatorn. One who dissimulates or feigns; a dissembler. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > hypocrisy > [noun] > a hypocrite hypocrite?c1225 dissimuler1386 whited (painted) sepulchre1388 dissimulator?a1513 dissembler1526 cafard1539 Tartuffe1688 hypocritic1818 Pecksniff1844 possum1846 slape-face1847 double-face1892 a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 112 Off the falis fox dissimvlatour Kynd hes every theiff and tratour. 1799 J. West Tale of Times III. 145 To drive the mean dissimulator from the affected decency of deism into the bold audacity of atheism. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham III. iii. 58 Dissimulator as I was to others, I was like a guilty child before the woman I loved. 1876 S. Smiles Huguenots in Eng. (rev. ed.) iii. 45 The Queen-mother, being a profound dissimulator, appeared still disposed to bargain with the Reformed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.?a1513 |
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