单词 | self-deceptious |
释义 | † self-deceptiousadj. Obsolete. Involving self-deception; self-deceptive. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > self-deception > [adjective] self-deceiving1597 self-deceived1628 self-deludinga1631 self-deluded1642 self-deceitful1644 self-deceptious1806 self-deceptive1810 1806 J. Jebb Let. 4 Oct. in J. Jebb & A. Knox Thirty Years' Corr. (1834) I. 269 Could there be a more faithful description of that self-deceptious, rationalizing system, whose evil influences we so entirely agree in lamenting? 1809 A. Knox Let. 8 Mar. in J. Jebb & A. Knox Thirty Years' Corr. (1834) I. 495 A self-deceptious substitution of a lower..good, in the place of the highest, and all perfect good. 1833 Daily Bread 16 When a people is sinking into this confusion of principle, it is vain in effect, self-deceptious in principle, and too often hypocritical in pretence to waste time in fanning the expiring ashes of thought and feeling. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.1806 |
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