ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not feigned or pretended; genuine.
1651. Baxter, Inf. Bapt., 97. A reall undissembled Faith.
1697. Collier, Ess. Mor. Subj., I. (1703), 170. An infallible proof of a natural and undissembled goodness.
1748. Melmoth, Fitzosborne Lett., lv. (1749), II. 73. Tell me then, with the same undissembled sincerity [etc.].
1804. Larwood, No Gun Boats, 10. Caparisoned for undissembled Field-of-Battle contest.
2. Not disguised or concealed; evident.
1671. Milton, Samson, 400. She purpos’d to betray me, and (which was worse Then undissembl’d hate) with what contempt [etc.].
1751. Smollett, Per. Pic., lxxvi. Emilia … listened to his protestations with undissembled pleasure.
1814. Scott, Wav., xxix. Callum … enjoyed, with undissembled glee, the ridiculous figure of Mr. Cruickshanks.
1850. Hawthorne, Scarlet L., xi. The anguish in his inmost soul, and the undissembled expression of it in his aspect.
Hence Undissembledness.
1681. Kettlewell, Chr. Obed., III. viii. 301. The sincerity and undissembledness of our faculties.
