Guise
[gaɪz] or [ɡaɪz]
Definition
(noun.) an artful or simulated semblance; 'under the guise of friendship he betrayed them'.
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Definition
(n.) Customary way of speaking or acting; custom; fashion; manner; behavior; mien; mode; practice; -- often used formerly in such phrases as: at his own guise; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.
(n.) External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.
(n.) Cover; cloak; as, under the guise of patriotism.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Appearance, aspect, garb, dress, form, shape, figure, fashion, manner, mode.[2]. [Poetical.] Air, mien, demeanor, behavior.[3]. Practice, habit, custom, manner, mode.
Typist: Susan
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Aspect, garb, semblance, plea, demeanor, dress, appearance, fashion, mien,manner
ANT:Character, person, individual, sentiment, disposition, opinion, life, mind,soul, self
Edited by Colin
Definition
n. manner behaviour: external appearance: dress.—v.t. (arch.) to dress.—v.i. to act as a guiser.—ns. Guis′er (Scot.) Guis′ard a person in disguise: a Christmas mummer.
Checker: Roderick
Examples
- In this dear intercourse, love, in the guise of enthusiastic friendship, infused more and more of his omnipotent spirit. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Plans which had lately appeared to her in the guise of tasks, now appeared like pleasures. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- She dates it from the time when Nietzsche, under the guise of Wagnerian propaganda, began to expound himself. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She took a savage pleasure in the idea of 'speaking her mind' to her, in the guise of fulfilment of a duty. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Human Justice rushed before me in novel guise, a red, random beldame, with arms akimbo. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The swain replied: 'It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- And in this guise they were walking all the way to Shortlands, their father and mother going in front. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Nor did he say a word about the worship of his mother Mary, in the guise of Isis, the Queen of Heaven. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Now I am so pressed by the Guises and my own people that _I am constrained_ to deliver you up into the hands of your enemies, and to-morrow you will be burned unless you are converted. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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