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Definition of Dissimulate
1. Verb. Hide (feelings) from other people.
Definition of Dissimulate
1. a. Feigning; simulating; pretending.
2. v. i. To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
Definition of Dissimulate
1. Verb. (intransitive) To practise deception by concealment or omission or by feigning a false appearance. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To hide or disguise by adopting a false appearance. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive rare) To connive at; to wink at; to pretend not to notice. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dissimulate
1. [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissimulate
Literary usage of Dissimulate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in by Edward Latham (1906)
"regnare (Who knows not how to dissimulate, knows not how to reign). Louis XI.
(1423-83)—referring to his ... (To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1853)
"[dissimulate occurs in Richardson's Dictionary, ... to theim that be olde and
broken, and to theim that be yonge and lusty, to dissimulate for a time, ..."
3. John Ruskin: A Sketch of His Life, His Work, and His Opinions with Personal by Marion Harry Spielmann, John Ruskin (1900)
"He can never have tried to dissimulate." How true this is will be felt by all
Ruskin's acquaintance. Not only could he never have tried to dissimulate, ..."
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