Both Uses of
deceive
in
Anne Of Green Gables
- Oh, Marilla, 'what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.'†
p. 213.1deceive = lie or mislead
- First, I was wasting the time I ought to have put on my studies; and secondly, I was deceiving my teacher in trying to make it appear I was reading a history when it was a storybook instead.†
p. 235.1 *deceiving = lying or misleading
Definition:
to lie to or mislead someone -- occasionally to lie to oneself by denying reality