All 6 Uses of
delude
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Misshapen from my birth-hour, how could I delude myself with the idea that intellectual gifts might veil physical deformity in a young girl's fantasy?†
p. 52.6 *delude = deceive (convince to have a false belief)
- What she compelled herself to believe—what, finally, she reasoned upon as her motive for continuing a resident of New England—was half a truth, and half a self-delusion.†
p. 56.7delusion = a false belief
- Once this freakish, elvish cast came into the child's eyes while Hester was looking at her own image in them, as mothers are fond of doing; and suddenly for women in solitude, and with troubled hearts, are pestered with unaccountable delusions she fancied that she beheld, not her own miniature portrait, but another face in the small black mirror of Pearl's eye.†
p. 67.1delusions = false beliefs
- None of these visions ever quite deluded him.†
p. 98.2deluded = with a false belief; or convinced to have a false belief
- It must needs be a delusion.†
p. 129.5delusion = a false belief
- Her spirit sank with the idea that all must have been a delusion, and that, vividly as she had dreamed it, there could be no real bond betwixt the clergyman and herself.†
p. 160.5