undeceive

American  

[uhn-di-seev] / ˌʌn dɪˈsiv /

verb (used with object)

undeceived, undeceiving

1. to free from deception, fallacy, or mistake.

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undeceive British  

/ ˌʌndɪˈsiːv /

verb

1. (tr) to reveal the truth to (someone previously misled or deceived); enlighten

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Other Word Forms

• undeceiver
  noun
• undeceivable
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of undeceive

First recorded in 1590–1600; un- ² + deceive

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

undeceive undeceived undeceiving

“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

Endeavors were not wanting to undeceive me, and I soon after saw with my own Eyes, that the fair Promises he made to me were nothing more nor less, than what they call Court-Holy-Water.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz

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

“Bed,” said an undeceived Mrs. Weasley at once.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

“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

Benson undertook the thankless task of undeceiving the public.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

"And you would not hate me also for rudely undeceiving you?"

From Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch

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