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The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy.

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  1. n. The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy.
  2. n. the act of deceiving
  3. The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy. Let love be without dissimulation. Rom. xii. 9. Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and arguments that he is not that he is. Bacon. Simulation is a pretense of what is not, and dissimulation a concealment of what is. Tatler.
  4. The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance;concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy.Let love be without dissimulation. Rom. xii. 9.Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and arguments that heis not that he is. Bacon.Simulation is a pretense of what is not, and dissimulation aconcealment of what is. Tatler.
  5. n:100 n the act of deceiving