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Example sentences for "dissimulation"

Lexicographically close words:
dissimilation; dissimilitude; dissimulate; dissimulated; dissimulating; dissipate; dissipated; dissipates; dissipating; dissipation
  1. The assumption that Peter's dissimulation at Antioch expressed the settled doctrine of the Jewish Apostolic Church, is unhistorical.

  2. Peter's dissimulation was a return to the Judaic ground of legal righteousness.

  3. The grace of God" is the touchstone to which Peter's dissimulation is finally brought.

  4. What if Peter must be reproved by Paul for his dissimulation (Gal.

  5. Two celebrated characters, indeed, were absent, whose talents for dissimulation could not have failed to distinguish them.

  6. But after all the real relief that she experienced was in diverting her thoughts from the possible dissimulation of her father and her friend to the plain and simple language made use of by Lord Lullworth in her presence.

  7. She had to act as if he was nothing to her, and this dissimulation had become unendurable, so that she had sought for the opportunity of telling him that he must release her.

  8. The first stroke of my dissimulation was practised upon a certain judge, to whom I was recommended by this matron as an innocent creature just arrived from the country.

  9. Helen, feeling with joy her power of dissimulation gather strength.

  10. The moon had set--the moon that had shed its inconstant beams upon his own dissimulation and Zoya Rochal's.

  11. I was delighted to find that she had got into this strain; it was the thing I wished, but durst hardly hope for without abundance of trouble on my part, and a dissimulation that was irksome to me.

  12. Indeed I have carried my dissimulation so far as not to desire this lady to change her address to me, lest if I gave her my present direction, she might be led to think, necessity had obliged me to change my former lodgings for worse.

  13. The facts of scientific anthropology have here been applied in such a way as to establish with great certainty both the present and future identity of individuals who attempt dissimulation of their name and antecedents.

  14. Prestongrange was the best yet; he had saved me, spared me rather, when others had it in their minds to murder me outright; but the blood of James lay at his door; and I thought his present dissimulation with myself a thing below pardon.

  15. But granted that it was so, granted that we taught you dissimulation to obtain certain necessary ends, should not common human gratitude have withheld you from betraying in such a despicable manner the men who trusted you?

  16. The actor certainly practices dissimulation as his profession.

  17. Sir," said Anne to Mazarin, with an accent from which daily habits of dissimulation could not entirely chase the real expression, "see if we can do something for these gentlemen.

  18. But dissimulation gives wisdom to men, joy to husbands--that's why there are so many happy families at present.

  19. Tuneless Yes, sir, it's dissimulation that keeps society going between men-- civil and matrimonial.

  20. Tuneless Here--begin your dissimulation with the Countess.

  21. I will acknowledge that there was some dissimulation in this conduct of Master Raymond's, and Joseph Putnam by no means approved of it.

  22. Well, I suppose your dissimulation is allowable if it is to save the life of your betrothed," said Master Putnam, "but I would not do it if I could and I could not if I would.

  23. All these cases of simulation and dissimulation torment the astronomer by multiplying his perplexities, and deepening the difficulty of escaping them.

  24. During her husband's reign Catherine's amiability to Diane de Poitiers went to such great lengths that intelligent persons must regard it as proof of that profound dissimulation which men, events, and the conduct of Henri II.

  25. But the persistent craft and dissimulation of the woman and the Italian, which she had never failed to employ, was incompatible with the debauched life of her son.

  26. Dissimulation is frustrated before so great a judge.

  27. Truth cannot be concealed in the end, dissimulation is of no avail.

  28. I saw no utility in any further dissimulation of anything or in any reticence; I began with our springtime stay at the farm in the mountains, and told my story in detail, from that hour.

  29. I was past any impulse towards dissimulation or any belief in its utility.

  30. We find a combination of these two last in naiveté, which is the breaking out of the sincerity originally natural to humanity in opposition to that art of dissimulation which has become a second nature.

  31. What will appear surprising is, that, with the character for negation and dissimulation ascribed to him, he was capable of indiscretions.

  32. Yet how continually are dissimulation and concealment recommended as virtues!

  33. I have been ready to say dissimulation was inseparable from woman.

  34. But if dissimulation can be productive of this, is truth less powerful?


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dissimulation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acting; affectation; appearance; artifice; bluff; color; coloring; cunning; deceit; deception; delusion; disguise; dissemblance; dissimulation; duplicity; facade; face; falsehood; falsity; feint; fraud; front; gilt; gloss; guile; humbug; imposture; mask; masquerade; ostentation; pose; posing; posture; pretense; pretension; pretext; representation; seeming; semblance; sham; show; simulacrum; simulation; speciousness; varnish; wile