All 8 Uses of
delude
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- This word is much used as a term of reproach by elderly gentlemen towards their juniors: probably with the view of deluding society into the belief that if they could be young again, they wouldn't on any account.†
Chpt 3deluding = deceiving (convincing to have a false belief)
- This is the grossest and wildest delusion, the completest and most signal mistake, that ever human being laboured under, or committed.†
Chpt 12 *delusion = a false belief
- The reflections of Mrs Nickleby were of the proudest and most complacent kind; and under the influence of her very agreeable delusion she straightway sat down and indited a long letter to Kate, in which she expressed her entire approval of the admirable choice she had made, and extolled Sir Mulberry to the skies; asserting, for the more complete satisfaction of her daughter's feelings, that he was precisely the individual whom she (Mrs Nickleby) would have chosen for her son-in-law, if she had had the picking and choosing from all mankind.†
Chpt 28
- Mama supposes that these are honourable men, rich and distinguished, and how CAN I—how can I undeceive her—when she is so happy in these little delusions, which are the only happiness she has?†
Chpt 28delusions = false beliefs
- Lashing himself up to an extravagant pitch of fury, Newman Noggs jerked himself about the room with the most eccentric motion ever beheld in a human being: now sparring at the little miniatures on the wall, and now giving himself violent thumps on the head, as if to heighten the delusion, until he sank down in his former seat quite breathless and exhausted.†
Chpt 31delusion = a false belief
- I do pity him, that I do; he's so deluded.†
Chpt 42deluded = with a false belief; or convinced to have a false belief
- He had no fear upon his mind; but, as he looked about him, he had less anger; and though all old delusions, relative to his worthless late companion, were now cleared away, he rather wished he had never known him than thought of its having come to this.†
Chpt 50delusions = false beliefs
- It was on one of these occasions that a circumstance took place, which Nicholas, at the time, thoroughly believed to be the mere delusion of an imagination affected by disease; but which he had, afterwards, too good reason to know was of real and actual occurrence.†
Chpt 58delusion = a false belief
Definition:
deceive (convince to have a false belief)