What does guise mean?
Definitions for guise
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This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word guise.
Princeton's WordNet
guise, pretense, pretence, pretextnoun
an artful or simulated semblance
"under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"
Wiktionary
guisenoun
Customary way of speaking or acting; fashion, manner, practice (.)
guisenoun
External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.
guisenoun
Misleading appearance; cover, cloak
Under the guise of patriotism
guisenoun
guys.
Sup guise
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 Dictionary
Guise [The same with wise;noun
Etymology: guise, French; wisa , Saxon, the ƿ or w being changed as is common into g.
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.
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.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.
Wikipedia
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.
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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 Dictionary
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
Guisenoun
external appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape
Guisenoun
cover; cloak; as, under the guise of patriotism
Etymology: [OE. guise, gise, way, manner, F. guise, fr. OHG. wsa, G. weise. See Wise, n.]
Wikidata
Guise
Guise is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
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 Encyclopedia
Guise
a celebrated French ducal family deriving its title from the town of Guise in Aisne.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
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.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of guise in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of guise in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of guise in a Sentence
By draping his essay in the guise of cooperation, Zuckerberg hopes to distract policy makers from the real threat, their code and algorithms influence our daily lives in ways far more intrusive than democratic governments or the law. No one elected these companies and they refuse to be held accountable.
There is no data on the value of data, it blows my mind that we do all this policymaking and planning based on guesstimates and extrapolations and interpolations behind the guise of empiricism.
Under the guise of sovereignty and security, the Chinese authorities are trying to rewrite the rules of the Internet so censorship and surveillance become the norm everywhere. This is an all-out assault on Internet freedoms.
Like an out-of-control firehose, the federal government has been spewing trillions of dollars under the guise of Covid relief, without any real guardrails or oversight, i don’t care how long it takes – we need a top-down audit on how every dollar of the American Rescue Plan has been spent. Any individual or organization who utilized these funds ought to be able to provide a thorough defense of their decisions. And anyone who spent ARP dollars outside the letter or spirit of that law must be held to account.
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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