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单词 self-deception
释义 self-deˈception
[self- 1 a.]
The action or fact of deceiving oneself; self-delusion.
1677Gilpin Dæmonol. (1867) 53 It may be said a man complies with those things which are intended for his delusion, and so improperly by his negligence may fall under blame of self-deception.1745J. Mason Self-Knowledge i. xi. (1758) 75 Of all impostures Self-Deception is the most dangerous, because least suspected.1827Scott Surg. Dau. v, With all a lover's power of self-deception.1907Raleigh Shakespeare 175 Self-deception is a male weakness.
So self-deˈceptious, -deˈceptive adjs.
1809Knox Let. to Jebb 8 Mar., A *self-deceptious substitution of a lower..good, in the place of the highest.
1894Athenæum 3 Nov. 599/1 [They] showed themselves theatrical, self-conscious, and *self-deceptive.
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