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Our mastery over manifold aspects of life has deluded us into thinking that we have bent the planet to our will. 

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2015

"I see how it has deluded you!" said Miss Elizabeth vehemently.

From The Guest of Quesnay by Tarkington, Booth

"Some rascal has deluded this simple, unsophisticated girl into the belief that he has married her, then cast her adrift."

From Jolly Sally Pendleton Or, the Wife Who Was Not a Wife by Libbey, Laura Jean

He says that one of the principal objects of his book is to show how Mr. Darwin "has deluded himself, and perhaps others, by a constant abuse of figurative language."

From What is Darwinism? by Hodge, Charles

Universality is the ignis fatuus which has deluded to ruin many a promising mind.

From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett