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
And as that gentleman never attempted to undeceive her on this or any other subject, but merely listened with a placid smile, she believed that he always thought precisely as she did.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie
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
Her treatment of her main two characters, survivors Toby and Ren, and of God’s Gardeners, a sect dedicated to preserving the besieged natural world, is Atwood at her best: cool-headed, warm-hearted, funny, smart and undeceived.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2017
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
To the undeceived reader, there are other hints of fictional cross-dressing.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 18, 2013
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
He seemed to have an intuitive perception of the dark side of her character; and she to feel a revolting awe of his undeceiving, undeceivable sagacity.
From Discipline by Mary Brunton
"And you would not hate me also for rudely undeceiving you?"
From Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch
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
Whoever should disclose to us the essence of the world would be undeceiving us most cruelly.
From Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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