Definition of Dissimulating

1. Verb. (present participle of dissimulate) ¹

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Definition of Dissimulating

1. dissimulate [v] - See also: dissimulate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissimulating

dissimilarly
dissimilarness
dissimilars
dissimilate
dissimilated
dissimilates
dissimilating
dissimilation
dissimilations
dissimilatory
dissimilitude
dissimilitudes
dissimulate
dissimulated
dissimulates
dissimulating
dissimulatingly
dissimulation
dissimulations
dissimulative
dissimulator
dissimulators
dissimulour
dissing
dissipable
dissipate
dissipated
dissipatedly
dissipatedness
dissipater

Literary usage of Dissimulating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Disputed Handwriting and the Determination of Genuine from by William Elijah Hagan (1894)
"... resulting from the dissimulating effort will be emphatically in the direction which such a muscular peculiarity would institute, and be typical of it. ..."

2. Physiognomy and Expression by Paolo Mantegazza (1899)
"... most certain revelations of a wicked character, and it is the more precious because the most hardened hypocrites do not succeed in dissimulating their ..."

3. France by Mayo Williamson Hazeltine, Witt (Henriette Elizabeth), Guizot (François) (1898)
"... on reading the duke's despatches,'' has he so little sense as to believe that a king whose crown he, by dissimulating, has been wanting to take away, ..."

4. The System of Nature, Or, Laws of the Moral and Physical World by Paul Henri Thiry Holbach, Denis Diderot, H. D. Robinson (1889)
"... of a cruel eye, of an austere aspect, of a false and dissimulating look, of an open countenance, &c. Keen and practised optics acquire, without doubt, ..."

5. Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield by Benjamin Disraeli (1882)
"But you carried on your negotiations day after day with dissimulating courtesy, and because you put off to the last the real business, that dissimulating ..."

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