GUISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does guise mean? 

• GUISE (noun)
  The noun GUISE has 1 sense:

1. an artful or simulated semblance

  Familiarity information: GUISE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUISE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An artful or simulated semblance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

guise; pretence; pretense; pretext

Context example:

under the guise of friendship he betrayed them

Hypernyms ("guise" is a kind of...):

color; colour; gloss; semblance (an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading)

 Context examples 

For the time, fear had been routed by growth, while growth had assumed the guise of curiosity.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In short, in all its guises she mastered the unexpected.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

She did not dream that in such guise new-born love would epitomize itself.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I expressed a wish to visit England, but concealing the true reasons of this request, I clothed my desires under a guise which excited no suspicion, while I urged my desire with an earnestness that easily induced my father to comply.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I passed it as negligently as I did the pollard willow opposite to it: I had no presentiment of what it would be to me; no inward warning that the arbitress of my life—my genius for good or evil—waited there in humble guise.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They were eyes that masked the soul with a thousand guises, and that sometimes opened, at rare moments, and allowed it to rush up as though it were about to fare forth nakedly into the world on some wonderful adventure,—eyes that could brood with the hopeless sombreness of leaden skies; that could snap and crackle points of fire like those which sparkle from a whirling sword; that could grow chill as an arctic landscape, and yet again, that could warm and soften and be all a-dance with love-lights, intense and masculine, luring and compelling, which at the same time fascinate and dominate women till they surrender in a gladness of joy and of relief and sacrifice.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Though it came in such a very simple guise, that was the crowning moment of both their lives, when, turning from the night and storm and loneliness to the household light and warmth and peace waiting to receive them, with a glad Welcome home!

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Few persons ever meet the fairy princes they dream about; but Maria, who worked hard and whose head was hard, never dreaming about fairy princes, entertained hers in the guise of an ex-laundryman.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The immense mountains and precipices that overhung me on every side, the sound of the river raging among the rocks, and the dashing of the waterfalls around spoke of a power mighty as Omnipotence—and I ceased to fear or to bend before any being less almighty than that which had created and ruled the elements, here displayed in their most terrific guise.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

All these were blotted out by a grotesque and terrible nightmare brood—frowsy, shuffling creatures from the pavements of Whitechapel, gin-bloated hags of the stews, and all the vast hell's following of harpies, vile-mouthed and filthy, that under the guise of monstrous female form prey upon sailors, the scrapings of the ports, the scum and slime of the human pit.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)