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A dissembling. (Greek, eĭron, a dissembler, eironeia.)
“So grave a body upon so solemn an occasion should not deal in irony, or explain their meaning by contraries.”—Swift.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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