Prevaricate vs Dissemble - What's the difference?
prevaricate | dissemble |
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To deviate, transgress; to go astray (from).
To shift or turn from direct speech or behaviour; to evade the truth; to waffle or be (intentionally) ambiguous.
(legal) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
(legal, UK) To undertake something falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
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
In lang=en terms the difference between prevaricate and dissemble
is that prevaricate is to shift or turn from direct speech or behaviour; to evade the truth; to waffle or be (intentionally) ambiguous while dissemble is to falsely hide one's opinions or feelings.As verbs the difference between prevaricate and dissemble
is that prevaricate is (transitive|intransitive|obsolete) to deviate, transgress; to go astray (from) while dissemble is to disguise or conceal something.prevaricate
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
(prevaricat)- The people saw the politician prevaricate every day.
Derived terms
* prevarication * prevaricatorSee also
* lie ----dissemble
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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.
