Definitions for guise
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. guise, pretense, pretence, pretextnoun

   an artful or simulated semblance

   "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. guisenoun

   Customary way of speaking or acting; fashion, manner, practice (.)

2. guisenoun

   External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.

3. guisenoun

   Misleading appearance; cover, cloak

   Under the guise of patriotism

4. guisenoun

   guys.

   Sup guise

5. Etymology: From guise, gise, gyse, from guisse, guise, vise, from Old, from wīsōn, from weyd-. Cognate with wisa, wise. More at wise.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Guise [The same with wise;noun

   Etymology: guise, French; wisa , Saxon, the ƿ or w being changed as is common into g.

   1. Manner; mien; habit; cast of behaviour.

   His own sire, and master of his guise,
   Did often tremble at his horrid view. Fairy Queen, b. i.

   Thus women know, and thus they use the guise,
   T’ enchant the valiant and beguile the wise. Edward Fairfax, b. iv.

   Lo you! here she comes: this is her very guise; and, upon my life, fast asleep: observe her, stand close. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   They stand a horrid front
   Of dreadful length, and dazzling arms, in guise
   Of warriors old, with order’d spear and shield,
   Awaiting what command their mighty chief
   Had to impose. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. i.

   By their guise
   Just men they seem, and all their study bent
   To worship God a-right. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. xi.

   Back, shepherds, back;
   Here be without duck or nod,
   Other trippings to be trod,
   Of lighter toes and such court guise,
   As Mercury did first devise. John Milton.

   Their external shapes are notoriously accommodated to that law or guise of life that nature has designed them. More.

   2. Practice; custom; property.

   This would not be slept;
   Old guise must be kept. Ben Jonson.

   The swain reply’d, it never was our guise
   To slight the poor, or aught humane despise. Alexander Pope.

   3. External appearance; dress.

   When I was very young, nothing was so much talked of as rickets among children, and consumptions among young people: after these the spleen came in play, and then the scurvy, which was the general complaint, and both were thought to appear in many various guises. William Temple.

   The Hugonots were engaged in a civil war, by the specious pretences of some, who, under the guise of religion, sacrificed so many thousands to their own ambition. Jonathan Swift.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Guise

   Guise (French pronunciation: ​[ɡɥiz]; Dutch: Wieze) is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. The city was the birthplace of the noble family of Guise, Dukes of Guise, who later became Princes of Joinville.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. guise

   Guise is an external form, appearance, or manner of presentation, typically concealing the true nature of something. It can refer to a way of seeming or looking that is not true or real. It can also refer to a form of dress or outfit.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Guisenoun

   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

2. Guisenoun

   external appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape

3. Guisenoun

   cover; cloak; as, under the guise of patriotism

4. Etymology: [OE. guise, gise, way, manner, F. guise, fr. OHG. wsa, G. weise. See Wise, n.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Guise

   Guise is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Guise

   gīz, 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. [O. Fr. guise; from Old High Ger. wísa (Ger. weise), a way, guise, which is cog. with A.S. wíse, way, wís, wise.]

The Nuttall EncyclopediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Guise

   a celebrated French ducal family deriving its title from the town of Guise in Aisne.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. GUISE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Guise is ranked #19774 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Guise surname appeared 1,361 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Guise.
   
   79% or 1,076 total occurrences were White.
   15.8% or 215 total occurrences were Black.
   1.8% or 25 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.8% or 25 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Matched Categories

1. • Semblance

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1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of guise in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of guise in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of guise in a Sentence

1. The President:

   President Trump is trying cloak fair housing under this guise of keeping the suburbs safe from' those low income people', it's almost as if President Trump's assuming that all black people live in low-income house or that low-income housing is just for black people.

2. Henry Miller:

   There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

3. David Clohessy:

   We're saddened but not the least bit surprised, it proves what we've long maintained : that even now, under the guise of' reform,' bishops continue to deceive parishioners and the public about their ongoing efforts to hide abuse.

4. Marion Brown:

   It was sexual harassment, violating my body, propositioning me, inviting me to hotels with the guise of discussing business and propositioning for sex, he just violated my body, he’s touched me in different ways. It was very uncomfortable and very unprofessional.

5. Rooma Mehra:

   People do not relate to softness anymore - in talk or under the guise of misunderstanding - they seem satisfied when they have proved to themselves that softness was feigned or blatant pretence and they were right in thinking hard and ugly thoughts of sarcasm, spite or other hurtful intentions

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=guise
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Guise
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=guise
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guise
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guise
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=guise
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=guise
9. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Guise
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html