undissemble

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ dissemble.

Verb

undissemble (third-person singular simple present undissembles, present participle undissembling, simple past and past participle undissembled)

  1. (reflexive, archaic, rare) To reveal one's dissimulation; to admit to lying.
    • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
      What inscrutable thing was it, that so suddenly had seized him, and made him a falsifyer—ay, a falsifyer and nothing less—to his own dearly-beloved, and confiding mother? […] But, nevertheless, on strict introspection, he felt, that he would not willingly have it otherwise; not willingly would he now undissemble himself in this matter to his mother.
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