Dis*sim`u*la"tion (?), n. [L. dissimulatio:
cf. F. dissimulation.] 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.
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