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noun
dissembling; dissimulation.
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Dissemblance
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| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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dissemble (dɪˈsɛmbəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to conceal (one's real motives, emotions, etc) by pretence |
| 2. | (tr) to pretend; simulate |
| 3. | obsolete to ignore |
| [C15: from earlier dissimulen, from Latin dissimulāre; probably influenced by obsolete semble to resemble] | |
| dis'semblance | |
| —n | |
| dis'sembler | |
| —n | |
| dis'sembling | |
| —n, —adj | |
| dis'semblingly | |
| —adv | |
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