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Definition of Dissembled
1. dissemble [v] - See also: dissemble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissembled
Literary usage of Dissembled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"His preceptors gradually rose to the rank and consequence of ministers of state,8
and, as they wisely dissembled their secret authority, he seemed to act ..."
2. History of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1899)
"protested that he would revoke it, lest the parliament should have been separated
in wrath, had dissembled, as was his duty, and permitted the great seal to ..."
3. The Grecian History: From the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great by Oliver Goldsmith (1826)
"... they dissembled their resentment; and the am- bassadors on both sides, having
all suitable honours paid them, returned to their respective cities. ..."
4. The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke (1866)
"tended deputation, he dissembled his resentment, it appears to have rankled in
his mind, and that he never forgave it, of whatever nature it might have been ..."
5. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1817)
"... having dissembled nothing, but Sunday before Christmas, the other on the "
From Cambridge, the 3d day of March, 167S. 85th of January following, ..."
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