dissimule
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Howbeit, he bare it out a pretie while: notwithstanding that after he was come downe so farre as to Misenum, he pretermitted nothing of his ordinary and daily manner, no not so much as his feasting and other pleasures: partly upon an intemperate humour of his owne, and in part to dissimule and palliate his weaknesse."
- "As if to cure a Leprosie, a man should bathe himself with the warme blood of a murthered Child: So in the Church, some errors may be dissimuled with lesse inconvenience, then can be discover'd."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English dissimulen, from Middle French dissimuler, from Latin dissimulō. Doublet of dissimulate, dissemble, and dissimilate.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: dissimulen, dissimuler, dissimulō
Usage
Inflected Forms
dissimules (present, singular)
dissimuling (participle, present)
dissimuled (participle, past)
dissimuled (past)