Both Uses of
dissimulation
in
The Age of Innocence
- Archer looked at her perplexedly, wondering if it were lightness or dissimulation that enabled her to touch so easily on the past at the very moment when she was risking her reputation in order to break with it.†
Chpt 12 *
- All these amiable and inexorable persons were resolutely engaged in pretending to each other that they had never heard of, suspected, or even conceived possible, the least hint to the contrary; and from this tissue of elaborate mutual dissimulation Archer once more disengaged the fact that New York believed him to be Madame Olenska's lover.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(dissimulation) hide (feelings) from other people by pretense