All 4 Uses of
delude
in
Angels & Demons
- Fortunately for her, reporters lived in eternal fear of missing the big story, so they seldom chastised her for passing along the occasional delusional psychotic.†
Chpt 43-44 *
- His credentials and publications had been quoted all night by the media, and as ridiculous as it was, the presence of a Harvard professor in Vatican City had somehow raised the whole emergency beyond the scope of paranoid delusion and convinced skeptics around the world that the Illuminati brotherhood was not only a historical fact, but a force to be reckoned with.†
Chpt 111-112
- Holy visions and divine messages had always seemed like wishful delusions to him-the product of overzealous minds hearing what they wanted to hear-God did not interact directly!†
Chpt 117-118
- They denounce God as a hallucination-a delusional crutch for those too weak to accept that life is meaningless.†
Chpt 131-132
Definition:
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(delude) deceive (convince to have a false belief)