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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—I

Irony

A dissembling. (Greek, eiron, a dissembler, cironeia.)

“So grave a body upon so solemn an occasion should not deal in irony, or explain their meaning by contraries.” —Swift.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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