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11dissimulation — /di sim yeuh lay sheuhn/, n. the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy. [1350 1400; ME dissimulacioun ( < AF) < L dissimulation (s. of dissimulatio a feigning); see DIS 1, SIMULATION] * * * …
12Shīʿite — ▪ Islam Introduction Arabic Shīʿī, collective Shīʿah member of the smaller of the two major branches of Islam, distinguished from the majority Sunnis (Sunnite). Early development Early in the history of Islam, the Shīʿites were a… …
13Huron Indians — • If language may be taken as a fair criterion to go by, the Hurons proper were the original stock from which sprang all the branches of the great Iroquoian family, whether included in the primitive federation of the Five Nations, or standing… …
14dissimulatingly — adverb In a dissimulating manner; with dissimulation …
15Opicinus de Canistris — was an Italian priest, writer and artist. He was born on 24 December 1296 in Lomello (close to Pavia) and died in Avignon around 1353. When his works were rediscovered in the early twentieth century, scholars deemed them to be “psychotic” due to… …
16insincere — I adjective artificial, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, disingenuous, disreputable, dissembling, dissimulating, evasive, faithless, false, false league, fraudulent, guileful, hollow, hypocritical, illegitimate, illusive, lying, mendacious,… …
17Religion (Philosophies of) — Philosophies of religion Marcel, Jaspers, Levinas William Desmond Gabriel Marcel (1889–1973), Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) and Emmanuel Levinas (1906–) seem like a mere aggregate of thinkers. Jaspers, a German thinker who coined the phrase Existenz… …
18Deconstruction and Derrida — Simon Critchley and Timothy Mooney DERRIDIAN DECONSTRUCTION1 In the last twenty five years or so, particularly in the English speaking world, no philosopher has attracted more notoriety, controversy and misunderstanding than Jacques Derrida.… …
19hypocritical — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. deceiving, deceptive, deluding, double dealing, shamming, sanctimonious, dissembling, pious, unctuous, unreliable, mealy mouthed, canting, insincere, double faced, smooth tongued, affected, false, caviling,… …
20lying — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [In the act of lying] Syn. untruthful, falsifying, prevaricating, swearing falsely, committing perjury, fibbing, misstating, misrepresenting, inventing, dissimuLating, equivocating, malingering. Ant. frank*, truthful,… …
