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From un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) +‎ dissembled (concealed, disguised; dissimulated, feigned, adjective).[1][2]

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undissembled (comparative more undissembled, superlative most undissembled)

  1. Not dissembled.
    1. Not concealed or disguised; evident, obvious.
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:obvious
      Antonyms: see Thesaurus:opaque
    2. Not dissimulated or feigned; genuine, unfaked.
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:genuine
      Antonyms: see Thesaurus:fake
      • 1651, Richard Baxter, chapter XXIX, in Plain Scripture Proof of Infants Church-membership and Baptism: [], London: [] Robert White; and are to be sold by Thomas Underhil, [], and Francis Tyton [], →OCLC, part I, page 97:
        There is a Reall undiſſembled Faith, vvhich yet is not juſtifying or ſaving. VVho can deny that?
      • 1722, Richard Steele, The Conscious Lovers. A Comedy. [], London: [] J[acob] Tonson [], published 1723, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 37:
        I ſavv the reſpectful Dovvncaſt of his Eye, vvhen you catcht him gazing at you during the Muſick: He, I vvarrant, vvas ſurpriz'd, as if he had been taken ſtealing your VVatch. O! the undiſſembled Guilty Look!
      • 1794 September 2 (date written), Andrew Fuller, compiler, quoting Samuel Pearce, “His Parentage, Conversion, Call to the Ministry, and Settlement at Birmingham”, in Memoirs of the Late Rev. Samuel Pearce, A.M. with Extracts from Some of His Most Interesting Letters. [], revised edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: American Sunday School Union [], published 1829, →OCLC, page 20:
        I write to-night, lest my stay in Cornwall might make my delay appear tedious to the dear and deserving object of my most undissembled love. Oh my Sarah, had I as much proof of that I love Jesus Christ, as I have of my love to you, I should prize it more than rubies!
        From a letter written by Samuel Pearce to his wife Sarah Hopkins Pearce.
      • 1815, Samuel Stanhope Smith, “Evidences of the Christian Religion. [The Character of the Author of Our Religion: The Instruments He Employed to Promote It: The Beneficial Consequences which have Resulted from Its Publication and Reception in the World.]”, in A Comprehensive View of the Leading and Most Important Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion: [], New Brunswick, N.J.: Deare & Myer, →OCLC, page 198:
        [H]is [Jesus's] whole life, [] was full of grace and truth: that is, conspicuously distinguished by the most amiable condescension, and benignity of disposition and manners, and by the most undissembled and inviolable sincerity.

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