Cloaking

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of wrapping or covering with a cloak.

    "May 15, 1555, Hugh Latimer, letter to the lovers of God's truth to take heed of their dissemblings and cloakings"

  2. 2
    The material from which cloaks are made.

    "Fcy. goods, cassimeres, cloakings, piece dyes, noils, mohair, and raw stock wool and cotton."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of cloak form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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coatingcoveringdissimulationeclipseenvelopmenthiding

Example

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"The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith; and when the ordinary man calls himself a sceptic or an unbeliever, that is ordinarily a simple pose, cloaking a disinclination to think anything out to a conclusion."

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