All 5 Uses
deceive
in
The Voyage of the Dawn Trader
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- No deceiving your Lordship with anything second rate.†
Chpt 3deceiving = lying or misleading
- But we were all of a sweat and a tremble, so I won't deceive you.†
Chpt 9deceive = lie or mislead
- And what with time getting on and being afraid that the old gentleman might wake up any minute — I was all of a muck sweat, so I won't deceive you — well, to cut a long story short, whether we did right or whether we did wrong, in the end we see a spell for making people invisible.†
Chpt 9
- "And we're extremely regrettable," said the Chief Monopod, "that we can't give you the pleasure of seeing us as we were before we were uglified, for you wouldn't believe the difference, and that's the truth, for there's no denying we're mortal ugly now, so we won't deceive you."†
Chpt 11 *
- "My son," said the star, "it would be no use, even though you wished it, to sail for the World's End with men unwilling or men deceived.†
Chpt 14deceived = lied or misled
Definitions:
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(1)
(deceive) to lie to or mislead someone -- occasionally to lie to oneself by denying reality
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)