Word Meanings - DISSIMULATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Feigning; simulating; pretending. Henryson.

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• SIMULATE
  Feigned; pretended. Bale. (more info) akin to simul at the same time, together, similis like. See Similar,
• PRETENDER
  The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident
• PRETENDANT
  A pretender; a claimant.
• SIMULATOR
  One who simulates, or feigns. De Quincey.
• FEIGNED
  Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false. "A feigned friend." Shak. Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. Ps. xvii. 1. -- Feign"ed*ly, adv. -- Feign"ed*ness, n. Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned
• PRETENDED
  Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend. -- Pre*tend"ed*ly, adv.
• PRETENDENCE
  The act of pretending; pretense. Daniel.
• PRETENDINGLY
  As by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously. Collier.
• FEIGNING
  That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false. -- Feign"ing*ly, adv.
• SIMULATORY
  Simulated, or capable of being simulated. Bp. Hall.
• FEIGNER
  One who feigns or pretends.
• FEIGN
  figura figure,and E. dough. See Dough, and cf. Figure, Faint, Effigy, 1. To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true. There are no such things done as
• SIMULATION
  The act of simulating, or assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true; -- distinguished from dissimulation, which disguises or conceals what is true. Syn. -- Counterfeiting; feint; pretense.
• PRETENDERSHIP
  The character, right, or claim of a pretender. Swift.
• PRETEND
  praetendere, praetentum, to stretch forward, pretend, simulate, 1. To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim. Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend. Dryden. 2. To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise
• ASSIMULATION
  Assimilation. Bacon.
• 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
• DISSIMULATE
  Feigning; simulating; pretending. Henryson.
• UNFEIGNED
  Not feigned; not counterfeit; not hypocritical; real; sincere; genuine; as, unfeigned piety; unfeigned love to man. "Good faith unfeigned." Chaucer. -- Un*feign"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*feign"ed*ness, n.
• ASSIMULATE
  1. To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate; to resemble. Blount. 2. To assimilate. Sir M. Hale.
• MISFEIGN
  To feign with an evil design. Spenser.
• INSIMULATE
  To accuse. Donne.