VERB
  1. free from deception or illusion
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How To Use undeceive In A Sentence

  • If they regard it as a luxury for me to have a private secretary, why should I undeceive them? The Tyranny of E-mail
  • Thinking it her favorite Carlo, and being in no mood for a frolic, without lifting her eyes she bid him "begone;" but she was soon undeceived by a shrill voice pronouncing her name, at the same time finding her arm tightly grasped by the thin, bony fingers of Crazy Nell, the terror of all the truant children in the village. Small Means and Great Ends
  • Mismanagement and Follies of her past Life, now took up all her Thoughts; and as she was of a Disposition generous enough, when Vanity, Pride, or Love, did not oversway her, she resolved to undeceive Antonia, and use the utmost of her Endeavours to perswade her to turn the Current of her Affections, where both the Laws of God and Man required them, and henceforward banish all Desire but for her Husband. Idalia, or, The Unfortunate Mistress: A Novel
  • Mrs. Setliffe saw his mistake, appreciated the naive compliment, and decided not to undeceive him. To Kill a Man
  • What follows will undeceive us: I place separately, in empty cells, a grub of Saperda scalaria and a The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
  • In his poem "Shiloh" (the first massive battle of the Civil War with almost 24,000 casualties), Herman Melville writes "What like a bullet can undeceive". Discourse.net: Unarmed, This Time
  • He is certain of success, and I have not the heart to undeceive him.
  • Their avowed object was to present a petition personally to the Prince Regent, that they might "undeceive" him; as if such a thing were possible, or, being possible, would be of the slightest service. The Revolution in Tanner's Lane
  • In light of that contention, it would seem that a culture that could not gain the uncoerced and undeceived adherence of enough individuals to survive would have no moral claim to its continuation.
  • The profane love of woman presented itself to my fancy, clothed, not only with all its own charms, but with the sovereign and almost irresistible charms of the most dangerous of all temptation—of that which the moralists call virginal temptation—when the mind, not yet undeceived by experience and by sin, pictures to itself in the transports of love a supreme and ineffable delight immeasurable superior to all reality. IX. Part II.—Paralipomena
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