deluder

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

delude +‎ -er

Noun[edit]

deluder (plural deluders)

  1. Someone who deludes
    • 1887, Mabel Collins, Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold[1]:
      But I am one who wish that Time, the great deluder, were not so over-masterful.
    • 1919, Camilla Kenyon, Spanish Doubloons[2]:
      I saw her no longer as the deluder of Aunt Jane, but as herself the deluded.
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses[3]:
      Or is it that from being a deluder of others he has become at last his own dupe as he is, if report belie him not, his own and his only enjoyer?

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