All 9 Uses

deception
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Sister Carrie
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Sometime she spent in wandering up and down, thinking to encounter the buildings by chance, so readily is the mind, bent upon prosecuting a hard but needful errand, eased by that self-deception which the semblance of search without the reality gives.†
Chpt 3

deception = the act of lying to or misleading someone; or something that misleads
Carrie had none of the small deception which could feel one thing and say something directly opposed.†
Chpt 7 *
As she rocked to and fro she felt the tensity of woe in abandonment, the magnificence of wrath after deception, the languor of sorrow after defeat.†
Chpt 16
The game of deception was up with Drouet.†
Chpt 20
She was for the moment wholly at sea, anxious to think for herself, and wondering what new deception was this which caused him to give out that she was ill when she was not.†
Chpt 22
Her little brain had been surging with contradictory feelings-shame at exposure, shame at Hurstwood's perfidy, anger at Drouet's deception, the mockery he had made at her.†
Chpt 23
Now his feelings were a mixture of anger at deception, sorrow at losing Carrie, misery at being defeated.†
Chpt 23
She felt as if the thing deserved an answer, and consequently decided that she would write and let him know that she knew of his married state and was justly incensed at his deception.†
Chpt 26
He was ignoring the last deception as something that might go by the board.†
Chpt 28

Definitions:

(1) (deception)
the act of lying to or misleading someone; or something that misleads
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)