All 3 Uses
deceive
in
Rappaccini's Daughter
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- Now, here it could not be but that Giovanni Guasconti's eyes deceived him.†
deceived = lied or misled
- Odors, being a sort of element combined of the sensual and the spiritual, are apt to deceive us in this manner.†
*deceive = lie or mislead
- His eyes, gazing down afar, might have deceived him as to the lizard, the insect, and the flowers; but if he could witness, at the distance of a few paces, the sudden blight of one fresh and healthful flower in Beatrice's hand, there would be room for no further question.†
deceived = 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)