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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
deceive
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Examples
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“Then I do not desire to have thee for godfather,” said the man; “thou deceivest men and leadest them astray.”
Household Tales 2003
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If thou so think, thou deceivest thyself; for all things shall come to pass as in his incomprehensible judgment he hath appointed.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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If thou so think, thou deceivest thyself; for all things shall come to pass as in his incomprehensible judgment he hath appointed.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Thou deceivest thyself, Sancho, therein, quoth Don Quixote; for, seeing we are fallen already into suspicion of the owner, we are bound to search and restore it to him; and when we would not seek him out, yet the vehement presumption that we have of it hath made us possessors mala fide, and renders us as culpable as if he whom we surmise were verily the true lord.
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Thou art the Truth, and deceivest not, nor canst be deceived.
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No, in truth, thou deceivest thyself, and losest the day of grace, and the favour of God, and makest thyself guilty towards God, in that He gives the evil spirits power over thee, so that thou canst do no good work.
Light, Life, and Love : selections from the German mystics of the middle ages William Ralph Inge 1907
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If thou speakest good and doest good, men suppose that thou lovest good: therefore look well that thy thought be in God, or else thou deceivest thyself, and deceivest men.
The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises Richard Rolle 1901
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"If thou deceivest me not," began Harold, doubting still.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"If thou deceivest me not," said William, in surprise, "and thou canst make good thy words, no prelate in Neustria, save Odo of Bayeux, shall lift his head high as thine."
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Sibyll Warner as man loves the maiden he would wed, thou deceivest thyself to thine own misery.
The Last of the Barons — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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