† diˈssimulance Chiefly Sc. Obs.
Also -simil-, -symil-.
[ad. L. dissimulāntia a dissembling, f. dissimulāre: see dissimule and -ance.]
Dissembling, dissimulation.
| 1508 Dunbar Gold. Targe 182 Quhen Venus had persauit this rebute, Dissymilance scho bad go mak persute. 1513 Douglas æneis iv. vi. 49 With dissimulance wenyt thow, wnfaithfull wycht, Thow mycht haif hid fra me sa fals a flycht. 1530 Lyndesay Test. Papyngo 617 Dissimilance, flattry, nor fals reporte. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. x. 417 That al sal weil vnderstand his wil to be naiket and bair of ony couering of dissimulance towards the King. 1727 Bailey vol. II, Dissimulance, dissembling. |