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What does dissemblance mean?

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Noun
  1. (countable) An act of dissembling.
  2. (uncountable) Dissembling, as a kind of behavior; dissembling, generally.
  3. (countable) Dissimilarity, unlikeness.
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Such dissemblance, at any rate, is not a temptation at this exhibition.
In this respect the US nuclear policy has been one of dissemblance and equivocation.
Central to such psychic self-preservation is a strategy of ambiguity, dissemblance, and porosity.
Maggie's own dissemblance and her determination to protect her father lead to a revenge that, by the book's end, may have broken the spirits of both Charlotte and the prince.
Bush's national security adviser and later as secretary of state was marked by deception, dissemblance and incompetence.
Today, many Yemeni Twelvers still dissemble about their adherence to that school, following the doctrine of taqiyya, or religiously permissible dissemblance.

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