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Definition of Deludes
1. delude [v] - See also: delude
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deludes
Literary usage of Deludes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Thomas Seccombe, William Strang, J. B. Clark (1895)
"... makes a speech, and deludes Gog and Magog to his party—A general scene of
uproar and battle among the company, until the Baron, ..."
2. Thirty Years of Labor. 1859-1889: In which the History of the Attempts to by Terence Vincent Powderly (1889)
"... from employers—Coal lands escape taxation—The man in the city deludes himself
when he imagines that the land question does not relate to him—The process ..."
3. A History of the Commonwealth of Florence: From the Earliest Independence of by Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1865)
"... by Appiano—Florentine ambassadors at Pisa—Appiano deludes them; and again
makes friends with the Duke—Truce for two years signed on Easter-day, ..."
4. The History of Hampton Court Palace by Ernest Philip Alphonse Law (1890)
"... Spies at Court— The Queen deludes him also—Suitors for the Hand of the Virgin
Queen— "Scandal about Queen Elizabeth"—Her undue Intimacy with Lord Robert ..."
5. Philosophy of the Great Unconscious by Samuel Eugene Stevens (1908)
"The Idealist, submerged in metaphysical speculation, deludes himself with a
universe of mind : the Realist, with a universe of matter. ..."
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