Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not producing or causing illusion, deception, fallaciousness, or the like; not illusory; not deceptive.
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Examples
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For, as to the last -- it denoted that the task of the spectacles was over; that, when a philosopher has made up his mind to marry, it is better henceforth to be short-sighted -- nay, even somewhat purblind -- than to be always scrutinizing the domestic felicity to which he is about to resign himself, through a pair of cold, unillusory barnacles.
The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various
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For, as to the last, it denoted that the task of the spectacles was over; that, when a philosopher has made up his mind to marry, it is better henceforth to be shortsighted -- nay, even somewhat purblind -- than to be always scrutinizing the domestic felicity, to which he is about to resign himself, through a pair of cold, unillusory barnacles.
My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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For, as to the last, it denoted that the task of the spectacles was over; that, when a philosopher has made up his mind to marry, it is better henceforth to be shortsighted -- nay, even somewhat purblind -- than to be always scrutinizing the domestic felicity, to which he is about to resign himself, through a pair of cold, unillusory barnacles.
My Novel — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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