Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being delusive; tendency to deceive.
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- noun The state or quality of being
delusive .
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Examples
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I have learned nothing except the vanity of wisdom, the impotence of magic, the nullity of love, and the delusiveness of memory ...
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The cause of these beliefs, and perhaps of their delusiveness, is the social situation and interests of the believers.
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The second inquiry, therefore, is the meaning of this delusiveness.
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A full perception of the delusiveness of official bulletins can only be obtained by reading histories of the war.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915
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But behold, the sinner now, at the sight and sense of his own nothingness, falleth into a kind of despair; for although he hath it in him to presume of salvation through the delusiveness of his own good opinion of himself, yet he hath it not in himself to have a good opinion of the grace of God in the righteousness of Christ.
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For this exposure of supernatural agents upon a stage is truly bringing in a candle to expose their own delusiveness.
On the Tragedies of Shakspere Considered with Reference to Their Fitness for Stage Representation
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But experience had long since proved the delusiveness of the simile.
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Ordinarily, the intellectual impotence of man is regarded as carrying with it moral incapacity as well, and the delusiveness of knowledge is one of the strongest arguments for pessimism.
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Well for him had he seen as clearly the delusiveness of other temptations!
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Scientific presumption may suggest the delusiveness of this sphere, just as in former times religious presumption sought to restrain the inquiries of science.
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