undeceive
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
The slowness with which our modern ritual has been envolved should be sufficient to undeceive any one inclined to think that the establishment of the initial religious rites presented no difficulty.
From The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion by Leuba, James H. (James Henry)
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
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
There is great supporting work all round but especially from Christian Bradley as an undeceived Banquo and Keith Dunphy as a superlative, crusading Macduff.
From The Guardian ● May 8, 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 Roscher, Wilhelm
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
Instead of undeceiving Father, 'Mother's brave boy,' of whom she was so proud, crawled under the bookcase, and in a moment the china head was in his father's hand.
From Chatterbox, 1906 by Clarke, J. Erskine (John Erskine)
But on the second day, during which interval I presume Harcourt had an opportunity of undeceiving his father, I was delighted to perceive that the old gentleman's warmth of behaviour towards me was increased.
From Japhet, in Search of a Father by Marryat, Frederick
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