DELUDE

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Delude

Verb

Etymology: from the Latin verb deludere (= to play, mock, deceive). This deludere is analyzable in de- (prefix with pejorative connotation) and ludere (= to play). It is etymologically and semantically identical to Italian deludere, and Spanish deludir.

Third-person singular simple present: she/he deludes

Indicative past, past participle: deluded

Present participle: deluding

Transitively

1. Obsolete acceptation: to play slyly with (a person) under the fiction of acting seriously; this is, to frustrate (any one) by means of something maliciously contrived.

2. Obsolete acceptation: to defraud or cheat (a person) of something.

***With the preposition of before the noun of what was obtained by deceit.

3. To deceive (an animated being) as if by play or ludic contrivance; this is, to induce (any one) to do, forbear, believe or admit something either by a lie, a misrepresentation, or an illusion.

It may be approximately translated by tromper, in French; deludere, ingannare, in Italian; deludir, engañar, in Spanish.

Synonyms: to deceive, beguile, cheat, dupe, banter, befool, cajole, trick

Antonyms: to undeceive, undelude, unfool, uncheat, unbeguile.

***With the preposition into before a noun or gerund, to signify the result of the delusion:

They stopped at the corner of the street, and called a coach with an air of indescribable dignity. The moment they were in, the bridesmaid threw a red shawl, which she had, no doubt, brought on purpose, negligently over the number on the door, evidently to delude pedestrians into the belief that the hackney-coach was a private carriage; and away they went, perfectly satisfied that the imposition was successful, and quite unconscious that there was a great staring number stuck up behind, on a plate as large as a schoolboy’s slate.

Charles Dickens (Sketches by Boz)

He had corrupted or deluded most of his servants into the most extravagant conceits in the world: that their master […] wore a dagger in one pocket and poison in the other; that he had sold his wife and children to Lewis, disinherited his heir […].

John Arbuthnot (The History of John Bull)

Montfort's plan was to throw his main strength on the attack on the priory, while deluding the enemy into the belief that his chief object was to attack the castle.

T.F. Tout (The History of England)

They had tricked and deluded her into doing it. They had lied to her when they said it was a better scene.

Henry Denker (The actress)

I doubt, with all your sophistry, if you can again delude me into a belief of your purity and integrity.

Hannah Maria jones (The Strangers of the Glen)

[…] the tropical sun is shining through upon my head into the miserable hole which they have deluded me into thinking was a cabin.

Anthony Trollope (The West Indies and the Spanish Main)

He deluded me into it, and almost forced me to say yes.

George Manville Fenn

Though you are not deceived as to my faults, you must be deluded into this exasperation against them.

Ann Radcliffe (The Mysteries of Udolpho)

***With the preposition about or on before a noun or gerund, to signify the thing in respect to which someone is deluded:

[…] Elizabath having so completely deluded him on that subject, that he could not refrain from whispering in Sir Francis Knollys’ ear […]

Agnes Strickland (Lives of the Queens of Scotland)

[…] I thought that nothing could happen so bad as my deluding you on such a subject by any fancies of my own.

Frances Trollope (The Attractive Man)

I never deluded you about wanting a private practice.

A. J. Scudiere (Resonance)

According to “Virginius,” the President had surrounded himself with sycophantic advisers […], who had deluded him about the true state of public opinion.

Harry Ammon (James Monroe)

***With an infinitive, to signify the action to which the deluded is induced:

[…] if you're any good, you'll delude some girl to keep house for you 'twixt now and fall.

Andy Adams (Cattle Brands)

*** In the reflexive mode:

John never deluded himself for a moment upon that subject.

Joseph A. Altsheler (The Hosts of the Air)

We cannot, if we would, delude ourselves about the true state of this dreadful contest.

Edmund Burke (The Works of Edmund Burke)

[…] if you think I am driving too fast, you might suggest some creek where I could delude myself with the idea, for a week or so, that it was not fordable.

Andy Adams (Cattle Brands)

[He] could almost delude himself into the belief that the entertainment was actually being held under the Jolly Tapley's roof.

Charles Dickens (Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit)

To the greater part of Western Europe William’s claim might really seem the better. William himself doubtless thought his own claim the better; he deluded himself as he deluded others.

Edward A. Freeman (William the Conqueror)

“You are always plotting, and delude yourself into the belief that everybody else is doing the like, I think,” said I.

Charles Dickens (David Copperfield)

[…] for a while, we deluded ourselves with this hope.

Paul Jones (The Reefer of ’76)

4. (The subject is an unanimated being) to induce (any one) to do, forbear, believe or admit something either by a misrepresentation, an error or an illusion.

Metaphorical use

The soiled and torn condition of the paper, so inconsistent with the true methodical habits of D--, and so suggestive of a design to delude the beholder into an idea of the worthlessness of the document.

Edgar Allan Poe

When a cargo of rags is washed ashore, every old pocket and bag-like recess will be filled to bursting with sand by being rolled on the beach; and on one occasion, the pockets in the clothing of the wrecked being thus puffed up, even after they had been ripped open by wreckers, deluded me into the hope of identifying them by the contents.

Henry David Thoreau (Cape Cod)

[…] knowledge that the master was monitoring the day’s supplies and assignments had deluded her into assuming that the domestic world was still intact.

Joanna Bowen Gillespie (The Life and Times of Martha Laurens Ramsay)

Today, Elizabeth wondered whether wishful thinking had deluded her into coming to California.

Judith P. Stelboum (Past Perfect)

Some vague expectation of absolute independence still seems to delude them.

Frederick Marryat (Diary in America)

[…] be not deluded by any hope or expectation that you will be permitted to remain here.

Frederick Marryat (Diary in America)

[…] untoward contrariety of circumstances, […] had deluded her into a conduct […] Fanny Burney (Camilla)

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