Dissimulation vs Counterfeisance - What's the difference?
dissimulation | counterfeisance |
The act of concealing the truth; hypocrisy or deception.
Hiding one's feelings or purposes.
(obsolete) Deception, dissimulation.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.viii:
*:For he in counterfeisance did excell, / And all the wyles of wemens wits knew passing well.