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Dissimulate vs Secrete - What's the difference?

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Dissimulate is a related term of secrete.


As verbs the difference between dissimulate and secrete

is that dissimulate is to practise deception by concealment or omission or by feigning a false appearance while secrete is .

As adjectives the difference between dissimulate and secrete

is that dissimulate is feigning; simulating; pretending while secrete is secreted.

dissimulate

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To practise deception by concealment or omission or by feigning a false appearance.
  • * 1912 Booth Tarkington, The Flirt , 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.
  • To hide or disguise by adopting a false appearance.
  • *
    • Public feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows.
  • (rare) To connive at; to wink at; to pretend not to notice.
  • * 1533 John Bourchier (Lord Berners), The Golden Boke of Marcus Aurelius 9:
    • 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

    * dissimulation

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Feigning; simulating; pretending.
    • (Henryson)

    References

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    secrete

    English

    Etymology 1

    First attested in 1678: from the (etyl) participle .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete, rare) separated
  • * 1678 : , The True Intellectual System of the Universe , book 1, chapter 4, pages 307 and 582:
    • they ?uppo?ing Two other Divine Hypo?ta?es Superiour thereunto, which were perfectly Secrete from Matter.
    This ?o containeth all things, as not being yet ?ecrete and di?tinct''; ''whereas in the Second they are di?cerned and di?tingui?hed by Rea?on''; that is, they are ''Actually di?tingui?hed'' in their ''Ideas''; ''whereas the Fir?t is the Simple and Fecund Power of all things.

    Etymology 2

    First directly attested in 1728; attested as the past-participial adjective secreted in 1707: from (etyl) and the (etyl) secretar.

    Verb

  • To extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to produce and emit waste for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function.
  • * Carpenter
    • Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not know.
  • * 2008 , Stephen J. McPhee, Maxine A. Papadakis, et al., Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment , McGraw-Hill Medical, page 1202:
    • Many tumors secrete two or more different hormones.
  • * 1863 : (author), Frances Elizabeth Kingsley (editor), Charles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his Life (first published posthumously in 1877), page 156 (8th edition: 1880)
    • If you won’t believe my great new doctrine (which, by the bye, is as old as the Greeks), that souls secrete their bodies, as snails do shells, you will remain in outer darkness.
  • * 1887 : , Democracy and Other Addresses , page 15 (1892 reprint)
    • Let me not be misunderstood. I see as clearly as any man possibly can, and rate as highly, the value of wealth, and of hereditary wealth, as the security of refinement, the feeder of all those arts that ennoble and beautify life, and as making a country worth living in. Many an ancestral hall here in England has been a nursery of that culture which has been of example and benefit to all. Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting .

    Etymology 3

    Alteration of verb sense of secret

    Verb

    (secret)
  • To conceal.
  • * 1914 : The Pacific Reporter , volume 142, page 450 (West Publishing Company)
    • Plaintiffs filed an affidavit for an attachment, alleging that defendant was about to assign, secrete , and dispose of his property with intent to delay and defraud his creditors, and was about to convert his property into money to place it beyond the reach of his creditors.
  • * 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 43 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
    • Whereas the Renaissance had allowed madness into the light, the classical age saw it as scandal or shame. Families secreted mad uncles and strange cousins in asylums.
  • With away, to steal.
    • The royal jewels were secreted away in the middle of the night, sub rosa .
    Usage notes
    * The present participle and past forms secreting and secreted are heteronymous with the corresponding forms of the similar verb secret, and this can create ambiguity when the word is encountered in print.

    References

    * “ †se?crete, a.'']” listed in the ''[[w:Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford English Dictionary] , second edition (1989) (adjective) * OED (second edition), “ secrete, v. ” (verb and figurative senses) English back-formations ----