Both Uses of
fallacious
in
Paradise Lost
- Yet, with a pleasing sorcery, could charm
Pain for a while or anguish, and excite
Fallacious hope, or...
Book 2 *fallacious = mistaken (based on incorrect belief)
- There they their fill of love and love's disport Took largely, of their mutual guilt the seal, The solace of their sin; till dewy sleep Oppressed them, wearied with their amorous play, Soon as the force of that fallacious fruit, That with exhilarating vapour bland About their spirits had played, and inmost powers Made err, was now exhaled; and grosser sleep, Bred of unkindly fumes, with conscious dreams Incumbered, now had left them; up they rose As from unrest; and, each the other…†
Book 9
Definition:
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(fallacious) not correct
- typically describing something as mistaken due to incorrect information or belief
- sometimes describing something as an intentional lie