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n. Plural form of guise.

"Institutionalised, the obligations of 18th-century conversation extend from the learned club to the university, bypassing the exclusiveness of legal formality or any of the proprieties restricting the swapping of information, but bypassing them in guises that never explicitly threaten them."

guide   

abides    asides    besides    brides    chides    coincides    collides    confides    decides    derides