Dissemble vs Undissembled - What's the difference?

dissemble | undissembled |

As a verb dissemble

is to disguise or conceal something.

As an adjective undissembled is

not dissembled; genuine, unfaked.

dissemble

English

Verb

(dissembl)

To disguise or conceal something.

* Shakespeare

Dissemble all your griefs and discontents.

* J. P. Kemble

Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love.

To feign.

* 1681 , John Dryden,

And like a lion, slumb'ring in the way,

Or sleep-dissembling , while he waits his prey.

* Tatler

He soon dissembled a sleep.

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

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)

Not dissembled; genuine, unfaked.

* 1778 , , Letter LXVIII: EVELINA TO THE REV. MR. VILLARS. Clifton, Sept. 28th.,

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.

* 1815 , , A Comprehensive View of the Leading and Most Important Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion , 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.

* 1835 , Jonathan Going, J. F. Schroeder, J. M. Krebs, J. Tackaberry (editors), Memoirs of Rev. Samuel Pearce'', in ''The Christian Library , Volumes 3-4, page 376,

I write to-night lest my delay appear tedious to the dear and deserving object of my most undissembled love.