dissimulator
(dɪˈsɪmjʊleɪtə(r))
Also 6 -our.
[ad. L. dissimulātor a dissembler, agent-n. from dissimulāre. Cf. mod.F. dissimulateur.]
One who dissimulates or feigns; a dissembler.
| 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xlix. 31 Off the falis fox dissimvlatour, Kynd hes every theiff and tratour. 1799 Mrs. J. West Tale of Times III. 145 To drive the mean dissimulator from the affected decency of deism into the bold audacity of atheism. 1827 Ld. Lytton Pelham lxvii, Dissimulator as I was to others, I was like a guilty child before the woman I loved. 1867 Smiles Huguenots Eng. iii. (1880) 45 The Queen-mother, being a profound dissimulator, appeared still disposed to bargain with the Reformed. |