dissemble (v.) Old form(s): disseble
deceive, disguise the truth, pretend
1H6 III.i.141[Gloucester to all] So help me God, as I dissemble not
2H6 V.i.13[York to himself, of Buckingham] I must dissemble
Cor III.ii.62[Volumnia to Coriolanus] I would dissemble with my nature [i.e. pretend to be what I am not]
E3 IV.iii.70[Charles reading a prophecy] think on him that doth not now dissemble
Oth III.iv.34[Othello to himself] O, hardness to dissemble!
R3 II.ii.31[Boy to Duchess of York, of Richard] Think you my uncle did dissemble
Tim V.i.93[Timon to Poet and Painter, of a knave] you hear him cog, see him dissemble
TS II.i.9[Katherina to Bianca, of telling the name of Bianca's favourite suitor] See thou dissemble not
Ven.641[Venus to Adonis] When thou didst name the boar, not to dissemble, / I feared thy fortune
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