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
It announced that British Broadcasting Corporation would begin to send out "straight news" in seven languages to undeceive misinformed mankind.
From Time Magazine Archive
Howard agrees but, as headwaiter to girl, he dares not undeceive her.
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
When you hear a gentleman speak in praise of a lady whom you do not think deserving of his commendations, you will gain nothing by attempting to undeceive him; particularly if she is handsome.
From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Leslie, Eliza
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
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
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
But the awful penalty of the island's undeceiving!
From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Caine, Hall, Sir
The English reader seems to need undeceiving about this, constantly, repeatedly.
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Reid, Mayne
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 Jókai, Mór
There was no use in undeceiving them as to my real rank and station.
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James
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