dissimulour
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Not known in Old French or Middle French; apparently formed anew from dissimulen + -our in Middle English.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /diˌsimiu̯ˈluːr/, /diˈsimiu̯lur/, /diˈsimilər/
Noun
dissimulour
- (rare) A dissembler.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of the Nonnes Preest”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, lines 456–459:
- False dissimulour, O Greek Sinon, that broughtest Troye al outrely to sorwe.
O false dissembler, like the Greek Sinon, who brought the Trojans sorrow so severe!- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
- English: dissimuler (obsolete)
- ⇒ English: dissembler
References
- “dissimulour”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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