Both Uses of
delude
in
Arrowsmith
- That's the kind of delusions these laboratory fellows get unless they have some practical practice to keep 'em well balanced.†
Chpt 17 *delusions = false beliefs
- The pastor of the Jonathan Edwards Church touched up a sermon about Sin in High Places by a reference to "one who, while like a Czar he pretends to be safeguarding the city from entirely imaginary dangers, yet winks at the secret vice rampant in hidden places; who allies himself with the forces of graft and evil and the thugs who batten on honest but deluded Labor; one who cannot arise, a manly man among men, and say, 'I have a clean heart and clean hands.'†
Chpt 24deluded = with a false belief; or convinced to have a false belief
Definition:
deceive (convince to have a false belief)