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Definition of Dissimulations
1. dissimulation [n] - See also: dissimulation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissimulations
Literary usage of Dissimulations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life in the South: From the Commencement of the War by Catherine Cooper Hopley (1863)
"Arrival in Baltimore—Dissimulations—Contrasts—Dangers in the Land of Freedom—A
Civil War indeed—Colonel Corcoran's Ovation—Conversation on Neutral ..."
2. "Liberty" by Julius Rubens Ames (1837)
"Here the General Conference is charged with " gross dissimulations 1" ... It is
the anti-abolitionists who are accused of " gross dissimulations. ..."
3. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII by John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner (1901)
"... king would not do so, and would persevere as for some time past, Henry would
like much better to be at open enmity than to live in these dissimulations. ..."
4. The Heptameron by Marguerite (1881)
"NOVEL X. The loves of Amadour and Florida, wherein are seen several stratagems
and dissimulations, and the exemplary chastity of Florida. ..."
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