All 6 Uses of
delude
in
Wuthering Heights
- One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls: that dream is reserved for the solace of our declining years.†
Chpt 2
- I'll teach thee to impose on a good-hearted, deluded father.†
Chpt 9 *
- 'She abandoned them under a delusion,' he answered; 'picturing in me a hero of romance, and expecting unlimited indulgences from my chivalrous devotion.†
Chpt 14
- Catherine we would fain have deluded yet; but her own quick spirit refused to delude her: it divined in secret, and brooded on the dreadful probability, gradually ripening into certainty.†
Chpt 27
- Catherine we would fain have deluded yet; but her own quick spirit refused to delude her: it divined in secret, and brooded on the dreadful probability, gradually ripening into certainty.†
Chpt 27
- The delusion did not last long.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(delude) deceive (convince to have a false belief)