undeceive
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Origin of undeceive
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“I am laboring industriously to undeceive the people,” one optimistic officer wrote from Arkansas.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Howard agrees but, as headwaiter to girl, he dares not undeceive her.
From Time Magazine Archive
It announced that British Broadcasting Corporation would begin to send out "straight news" in seven languages to undeceive misinformed mankind.
From Time Magazine Archive
During the meal she was quiet and cool: but I could not undeceive her then.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Civil authority also flies to the support of the prejudices of mankind; compels them to ignorance by forbidding inquiry; and holds itself in continual readiness to punish all who attempt to undeceive them.**
From Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures by Logan Mitchell
But this is what surely gives Jhabvala’s work its rare gleam: the undeceived clarity of the eternal outsider, immersed yet apart.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2019
Joan Fontaine in Hitchcock’s Suspicion has the girlish, coltish beauty that co-existed with the almost spinsterly style of the schoolteacher, and a smidgen of undeceived worldliness.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2018
The first is why this worldly, witty, undeceived man spent forty years, off and on, conducting séances with the spirit world through the medium of a cheap Ouija board.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 6, 2015
That was it, I thought: there is very little to object to or argue with in his essays; no rough edges that one can hang on to; they are so reasonable, so alert, so undeceived.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2010
We lived well, our days were mostly sunny, and I know that my parents were stoically undeceived by the objectively equivocal, contingent nature of the advantaged life they gave me and my siblings.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
“The old man paused and then continued, ‘If you will unreservedly confide to me the particulars of your tale, I perhaps may be of use in undeceiving them.
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
There is, further the process of undeceiving, inseparable from the prosecution of any ideal purpose.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher
Madame Récamier concluded not to abandon her husband, and returned to Paris, but without undeceiving the Prince, who started for Berlin.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 by Various
But the awful penalty of the island's undeceiving!
From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Sir Hall Caine
I had no intention of undeceiving them, and did not take off my hat, but stood with the "Sultan of Morocco" between my teeth, and my hands engaged with the budding-knife.
From Dr. Dumany's Wife by Mór Jókai
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