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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
undeceive .
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Examples
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But the old fairy with the birch rod soon undeceives them.
The Water Babies 2007
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He returns to London, and meets with Cadwallader, who entertains him with many curious Particulars — Crabtree sounds the Duchess, and undeceives Pickle, who, by an extraordinary Accident, becomes acquainted with another Lady of Quality.
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He returns to London, and meets with Cadwallader, who entertains him with many curious Particulars — Crabtree sounds the Duchess, and undeceives Pickle, who, by an extraordinary Accident, becomes acquainted with another Lady of Quality.
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Duchess, and undeceives Pickle, who, by an extraordinary Accident, becomes acquainted with another Lady of Quality.
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He cruelly undeceives her about his own feelings, telling her, that although touched by her confidence he cannot return her affection.
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley
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Start "The Memory of Earth" and you think you are to read one of the many fine poems of twilight in our literature, but the fourth line undeceives you: --
Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt 1914
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For Logic may be said to be an Art of right reasoning; an Art that undeceives men who take falsehood for truth; enables men to pass a true judgment, and detect those fallacies, which in some men's understandings usurp the place of right reason.
Lives of John Donne Henry Wotton Rich'd Hooker George Herbert etc Walton, Izaak 1898
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Marriage undeceives them, and then they wish that they had exercised a little more discretion, and had not been in quite such a hurry.
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Franklin, battle of, undeceives Thomas as to Hood's intentions; where described.
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 Jacob Dolson Cox 1864
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He entertained their principles sincerely and not the less that they were found impracticable; for the miscarriage of his experiment no more converts the political speculator, than the explosion of a retort undeceives an alchymist.
Woodstock 1855
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