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dissimulations

n. (plural of dissimulation English)

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More discords, and more jealousies, More murmurs, and more novelties, And more dissimulations, And feigned reparations.

I had already observed at Balbec that, side by side with that childlike sincerity of his face, the skin of which by its transparence rendered visible the sudden tide of certain emotions, hi sbody had been admirably trained to perform a certain number of well-bred dissimulations, and that, like a consummate actor, he could, in his regimental and in his social life, play alternately quite different parts.