"dissemblance" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2009 March 28, Edward Rothstein, “Catching Some Z’s in Days of Yore”, in New York Times",
          "text": "Such dissemblance, at any rate, is not a temptation at this exhibition.",
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        "An act of dissembling."
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        "(countable) An act of dissembling."
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        {
          "word": "concealment"
        },
        {
          "word": "dissimulation"
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          "ref": "1980 December 22, Virginia Haradon, “Letters”, in Time",
          "text": "With Mae West, coquettish dissemblance was out; womanly seductiveness was in.",
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        "Dissembling, as a kind of behavior; dissembling, generally."
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        "(uncountable) Dissembling, as a kind of behavior; dissembling, generally."
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          "ref": "1849, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 11, in The Sea Lions",
          "text": "As this latter animal [the sperm whale] is quite one-third head, he has no very great dissemblance to the alligator in this particular.",
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        {
          "ref": "1916 February 7, “The Greatest Miracle”, in Hawera & Normanby Star, New Zealand, retrieved 2011-08-12, page 2",
          "text": "Moreover, at any season there is a difference between down grass and mountain grass, between sea grass and valley grass, between moor grass and wood grass. It may be slight, and not in kind but only in shadowy dissemblances of texture and hue.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Dissimilarity, unlikeness."
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        "(countable) Dissimilarity, unlikeness."
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        "An act of dissembling."
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        "(countable) An act of dissembling."
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        "Dissembling, as a kind of behavior; dissembling, generally."
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        "(uncountable) Dissembling, as a kind of behavior; dissembling, generally."
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1916 February 7, “The Greatest Miracle”, in Hawera & Normanby Star, New Zealand, retrieved 2011-08-12, page 2",
          "text": "Moreover, at any season there is a difference between down grass and mountain grass, between sea grass and valley grass, between moor grass and wood grass. It may be slight, and not in kind but only in shadowy dissemblances of texture and hue.",
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        "Dissimilarity, unlikeness."
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        "(countable) Dissimilarity, unlikeness."
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