dissimulates

Verb

dissimulate (third-person singular simple present dissimulates, present participle dissimulating, simple past and past participle dissimulated)

1. (intransitive) To practise deception by concealment or omission, or by feigning a false appearance; to dissemble.
   • But now, as he paced alone in his apartment, now that he was not upon exhibition, now when there was no eye to behold him, and there was no reason to dissimulate or veil a single thought or feeling, his look was anything but open; the last trace of frankness disappeared; the muscles at mouth and...1913, Booth Tarkington, chapter 13, in The Flirt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 212
2. (transitive) To disguise or hide by adopting a false appearance; to dissemble.
   • [P]ublic feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows.1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter III, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 38
3. (rare, transitive) To connive at; to wink at; to pretend not to notice.
   • That al thyng be forgiven to theim that be olde and broken, and to theim that be yonge and lusty to dissimulate for a time, and nothyng to be forgiuen to very yong children.1533 John Bourchier (Lord Berners), The Golden Boke of Marcus Aurelius 9

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