Dissemble vs Undissembled - What's the difference?
dissemble | undissembled |
To disguise or conceal something.
* Shakespeare
* J. P. Kemble
To feign.
* 1681 , John Dryden,
* Tatler
To deliberately ignore something; to pretend not to notice.
To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings.
* XVII century, John Dryden, Cymon And Iphigenia''; from ''Boccace
Not dissembled; genuine, unfaked.
* 1778 , , Letter LXVIII: EVELINA TO THE REV. MR. VILLARS. Clifton, Sept. 28th.,
* 1815 , , A Comprehensive View of the Leading and Most Important Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion ,
* 1835 , Jonathan Going, J. F. Schroeder, J. M. Krebs, J. Tackaberry (editors), Memoirs of Rev. Samuel Pearce'', in ''The Christian Library , Volumes 3-4,
As a verb dissemble
is to disguise or conceal something.As an adjective undissembled is
not dissembled; genuine, unfaked.dissemble
English
Verb
(dissembl)- Dissemble all your griefs and discontents.
- Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love.
- And like a lion, slumb'ring in the way,
- Or sleep-dissembling , while he waits his prey.
- He soon dissembled a sleep.
- While to his arms the blushing bride he took,
- To seeming sadness she composed her look;
- As if by force subjected to his will,
- Though pleased, dissembling , and a woman still.
undissembled
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He paid me the most high-flown compliments; and frequently and forcibly seized my hand, though I repeatedly, and with undissembled anger, drew it back.
page 198,
- and which, in every part of it, was full of grace and truth : that is, conspicuously distinguished by the most amiable condescension, and benignity of disposition and manners, and by the most undissembled and inviolable sincerity.
page 376,
- I write to-night lest my delay appear tedious to the dear and deserving object of my most undissembled love.