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self-deˈceit
[self- 1 a.]
Self-deception.
1679J. Flavel Saint Indeed ii. 16 Evidences of self-deceit in matters of Religion. 1712Addison Spect. No. 399 ⁋2 This fatal Hypocrisie and Self-deceit. 1828D. Stewart Philos. Powers of Man ii. ii. I. 157 Our moral powers are warped by the influence of self-partiality and self-deceit. 1832Miss Mitford Village Ser. v. Incendiary 6 They show to the human heart its own desperate self-deceit.
So self-deˈceitful a., -deˈceitfulness.
1818Byron Juan i. cvi, How *self-deceitful is the sagest part Of mortals whom thy [sc. Love's] lure hath led along.
1850W. H. Goold J. Owen's Wks. I. Pref. 9 The *self-deceitfulness of the heart. |