All 4 Uses of
deceit
in
Don Quixote
- Fraud, deceit, or malice had then not yet mingled with truth and sincerity.†
Chpt 1.11-12 *deceit = act of lying to or misleading someone
- Peace be with thee who hast sent war to me, and Heaven grant that the deceit of thy husband be ever hidden from thee, so that thou repent not of what thou hast done, and I reap not a revenge I would not have.†
Chpt 1.23-24
- found near him with such rage and fierceness that if we had not dragged him off him, he would have beaten or bitten him to death, all the while exclaiming, 'Oh faithless Fernando, here, here shalt thou pay the penalty of the wrong thou hast done me; these hands shall tear out that heart of thine, abode and dwelling of all iniquity, but of deceit and fraud above all; and to these he added other words all in effect upbraiding this Fernando and charging him with treachery and faithlessness.†
Chpt 1.23-24
- Some take the broad road of overweening ambition; others that of mean and servile flattery; others that of deceitful hypocrisy, and some that of true religion; but I, led by my star, follow the narrow path of knight-errantry, and in pursuit of that calling I despise wealth, but not honour.†
Chpt 2.31-32deceitful = misleading or not trustworthy
Definition:
the act of lying to or misleading someone