Both Uses of
illusory
in
Middlemarch
- She had only time to feel that all this was hazy and perhaps illusory; but one thing was clear and determined—her answer.†
Chpt 5 *
- Whatever certain dissatisfactions in marriage, which some silly tinklings of gossip had given him hints of, might have to do with this change, Mr. Farebrother felt sure that it was chiefly connected with the debts which were being more and more distinctly reported, and he began to fear that any notion of Lydgate's having resources or friends in the background must be quite illusory.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
something that seems real or possible but is actually false or misleading
Illusory is the adjective form of illusion.