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the act of lying to or misleading someone; or something that misleads
- The general had had nothing to accuse her of, nothing to lay to her charge, but her being the involuntary, unconscious object of a deception which his pride could not pardon, and which a better pride would have been ashamed to own.Chapter 30 (52% in)
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