All 5 Uses
dissemble
in
The Life and Death of King Richard III
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- I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;†
Scene 1.1dissembling = lying or deceiving (hiding or disguising the truth)
- Arise, dissembler: though I wish thy death, I will not be thy executioner.†
Scene 1.2
- I that kill'd her husband and his father, To take her in her heart's extremest hate; With curses in her mouth, tears in her eyes, The bleeding witness of her hatred by; Having God, her conscience, and these bars against me, And I no friends to back my suit withal, But the plain devil and dissembling looks, And yet to win her,—all the world to nothing!†
Scene 1.2dissembling = lying or deceiving (hiding or disguising the truth)
- Rivers and Hastings, take each other's hand; Dissemble not your hatred, swear your love.†
Scene 2.1dissemble = hide or disguise the truth without outright lying
- Think you my uncle did dissemble, grandam?
Scene 2.2 *dissemble = hide or disguise the truth
Definitions:
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(1)
(dissemble) hide or disguise the truth without outright lying
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)