Dissimulate vs Belie - What's the difference?
dissimulate | belie |
To practise deception by concealment or omission or by feigning a false appearance.
* 1912 Booth Tarkington, The Flirt ,
To hide or disguise by adopting a false appearance.
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(rare) To connive at; to wink at; to pretend not to notice.
* 1533 John Bourchier (Lord Berners), The Golden Boke of Marcus Aurelius 9:
Feigning; simulating; pretending.
(obsolete) To lie around; encompass.
(transitive, obsolete, of an army) To surround; beleaguer.
To tell lies about; to slander.
* Shakespeare
To give a false representation of, to misrepresent.
* Shakespeare
*, II.2.6.iv:
To contradict, to show (something) to be false.
* Dryden
To be shown false by contradicting (something) that is true; to conceal the contradictory or ironic presence of (something).
* 2013 , Elizabeth Koh, "Fighting Pest, Farmers Find Strange Ally: A Drought,"
To show, evince, demonstrate: to show (something) to be present, particularly something deemed contradictory or ironic.
* 1993 , Carol A. Mossman, Politics and Narratives of Birth: Gynocolonization from Rousseau to Zola , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-41586-6,
(obsolete) To mimic; to counterfeit.
(obsolete) To fill with lies.
* Shakespeare
In transitive terms the difference between dissimulate and belie
is that dissimulate is to hide or disguise by adopting a false appearance while belie is to contradict, to show (something) to be false.As verbs the difference between dissimulate and belie
is that dissimulate is to practise deception by concealment or omission or by feigning a false appearance while belie is to lie around; encompass.As an adjective dissimulate
is feigning; simulating; pretending.dissimulate
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Verb
(en-verb)Chapter 13
- 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 eyes shifted; lines and planes intermingled and altered subtly; there was a moment of misty transformation -- and the face of another man emerged. It was the face of a man uninstructed in mercy; it was a shrewd and planning face: alert, resourceful, elaborately perceptive, and flawlessly hard.
- Public feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows.
- 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.
Derived terms
* dissimulationAdjective
(-)- (Henryson)
References
* ----belie
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Alternative forms
*Etymology 1
From (etyl) belyen, beliggen, from (etyl) belicgan, . Cognate with German beliegen.Verb
Etymology 2
From (etyl) belyen, .Verb
- Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him.
- Should I do so, I should belie my thoughts.
- He found it by experience, and made good use of it in his own person, if Plutarch belie him not […].
- Their trembling hearts belie their boastful tongues.
- Her obvious nervousness belied what she said.
New York Times, August 31, 2013
- The rosy outlook belies a struggle to achieve statewide eradication that has persisted since the insect first crossed the border from Mexico around 1892.
- His calm demeanor belied his inner sense of guilt.
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- A host of evidence is adduced by the accused, evidence whose sometimes self-contradictory nature belies a certain desperation.
- (Dryden)
- The breath of slander doth belie all corners of the world.