self-hypnotized
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He is self-hypnotized, so to speak, and his mind mercifully dulled for the moment on the Sea of Fatalism.
From The Rising of the Court by Henry Lawson
That is to say, nothing but the pretense upon which cupidity and self-hypnotized credulity battened and fattened.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers by Elbert Hubbard
One summer evening when the poor woman was sitting in the dark in the self-hypnotized condition of the utter emptiness of her living death, she heard Christophe playing.
From Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House by Gilbert Cannan
If not self-hypnotized into certain beliefs and practices, we are, so to speak, semi-hypnotized through the influence of the thoughts of others, even though unconsciously both on their part and on ours.
From What All The World's A-Seeking The Vital Law of True Life, True Greatness Power and Happiness by Ralph Waldo Trine
More than half self-hypnotized into a belief in his own charlatanry he faced this new demon who threatened to undermine his ancient and lucrative profession.
From Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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