All 3 Uses of
delude
in
The House of Mirth
- He would not, in other words, yield to the growth of an affection which might appeal to pity yet leave the understanding untouched: sympathy should no more delude him than a trick of the eyes, the grace of helplessness than a curve of the cheek.†
Chpt 1.14 *
- Here was a man who turned to her in the extremity of his loneliness and his humiliation: if she came to him at such a moment he would be hers with all the force of his deluded faith.†
Chpt 2.6
- In the uneasy snatches of her natural dreams he came to her sometimes in the old guise of fellowship and tenderness; and she would rise from the sweet delusion mocked and emptied of her courage.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(delude) deceive (convince to have a false belief)