How To Use Undeceive In A Sentence
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If they regard it as a luxury for me to have a private secretary, why should I undeceive them?
The Tyranny of E-mail
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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
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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
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Mrs. Setliffe saw his mistake, appreciated the naive compliment, and decided not to undeceive him.
To Kill a Man
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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
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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
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He is certain of success, and I have not the heart to undeceive him.
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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
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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.
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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 temptationof that which the moralists call virginal temptationwhen 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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But all that would now change as “the adoption and prosecution of the energetic policy proposed must soon undeceive them.”
A Country of Vast Designs
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To remove a conviction so generally adopted, Quentin easily saw was impossible — nay, that any attempt to undeceive men so obstinately prepossessed in their belief, would be attended with personal risk, which, in this case, he saw little use of incurring.
Quentin Durward
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You don't have to speak to the web," Dor said quickly, though he was sorry to undeceive her.
Falcon Street
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Those who immediately forged and promoted that lie of his being stolen away were justly given up to strong delusions to believe it, and not suffered to be undeceived by his being shown to all the people; and so much the greater shall be the blessedness of those who have not seen, and yet have believed -- Nec ille se in vulgus edixit, ne impii errore, liberarentur; ut et fides non praemio mediocri destinato difficultate constaret -- He showed not himself to the people at large, lest the impious among them should have been forthwith loosed from their error, and that faith, the reward of which is so ample, might be exercised with a degree of difficulty.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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That thought of being so scared and undeceived, strangely shuddering with doubt gave her a rude awakening to something she never had experienced before.
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Pray undeceive my Mother with regard to the agreeable mistake as to the repairs —
Letter 96
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When once deceived, however, or undeceived about the character of a person, he became utterly incredulous, and he saluted this fine speech of my lord's with a sardonical, inward laughter, preserving his gravity, however, and scarce allowing any of his scorn to appear in his words.
The Virginians
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For the meaning of the word, just as Wittgenstein wanted us to believe (in order that we might be undeceived about how our words work), lies in its use in the language.
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'That is indeed unfortunate; but if you are really blameless, cannot you undeceive them?'
Chapter 15
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Inveraray for some time; so that it was probable we should be there as soon as he: however, I did not undeceive my friend, but suffered him to enjoy his fancy.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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Camilla again denied the charge, and strove to prevail with her to undeceive the Baronet from any false expectations.
Camilla
