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Dissimulator   Listen
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Dissimulator  n.  One who dissimulates; a dissembler.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Dissimulator" Quotes from Famous Books



... hypocrisy is the acquisition of gain or vainglory: wherefore a gloss on Job 27:8, "What is the hope of the hypocrite, if through covetousness he take by violence," says: "A hypocrite or, as the Latin has it, a dissimulator, is a covetous thief: for through desire of being honored for holiness, though guilty of wickedness, he steals praise for a life which is not his." [*The quotation is from St. Gregory's Moralia, Bk XVIII.] Therefore since covetousness or vainglory is not directly opposed to truth, ...
— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas



Words linked to "Dissimulator" :   smoothy, hypocrite, smoothie, beguiler, cheat, trickster, cheater, phoney, whited sepulcher, charmer, Tartuffe, pretender, sweet talker, whited sepulchre



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