Noun: guise
| Singular | guise |
| Plural | guises |
Sample Sentences
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1924, Aristotle. Metaphysics. Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Aristotle. Metaphysics. Book 1, Part 5.
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dialecticians and sophists assume the same guise as the philosopher
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Under the guise of patriotism
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Ought we be concerned that our rights to protest are being continually eroded under the guise of enhancing our safety? [2013 September 13, Russell Brand, The Guardian:]
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This was almost like a behind-closed-doors pre-season friendly in an international guise so it comes as no surprise that England lacked the sort of sharpness and inspiration that would have come with more match practice. [2020 September 5, Phil McNulty, “Iceland 0-1 England”, in BBC Sport:]
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But in the blink of an eye, you kissed me goodbye
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And the taste of your lips left me mortified
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They were cold, full of spite
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And under a guise
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You promised we'd both be dead that night [2022, Vane, “Six Feet Under”:]
Nouns inflected like guise
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English guise, gise, gyse, from Old French guisse, guise, vise (“guise, manner, way”), from Old Frankish *wīsa (“manner, way, fashion”), from Proto-Germanic *wīsǭ (“manner, way”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, view, behold, perceive”). Cognate with Old High German wīsa (“way, manner”), Old English wīse (“way, manner”), Dutch wijze (“way, manner”). More at wise. See: Middle English Nouns '
guise', Old English Nouns '
wīse', Dutch Nouns '
wijze'.