delude
verb (used with object)
to mislead the mind or judgment of; deceive.
had deluded
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past perfectof delude.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The life of this man had been secretly bad; he had deluded himself with maxims and rules of gentility.
From Sons and Fathers by Harry Stillwell Edwards
Huss defended himself gallantly, with wonderful quickness of thought and dialectical skill, but nothing could be more unlike the free debate which he had deluded himself into anticipating when he left Prague.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
No wonder, then, that they had deluded simple Helen, and her even simpler and more unworldly father.
From A Noble Life by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
The latter, therefore, had waked the unfortunate man up before he had been asleep five hours, and had deluded him into the belief that the aurora borealis was the first flush of daylight.
From Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan
Him they set much by, because of long time with sorcery he had deluded their wits.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
