Both Uses
deceive
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
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- Miss Editha Woodworth sat propped up, motionless, under a huge lugubrious oil painting of—if Clumly's eyes did not deceive him—broken columns on a hillside, or possibly horses.†
Chpt 1 *deceive = lie or mislead
- The great deceiver has no heart.†
Chpt 2deceiver = someone who lies or misleads
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)