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deluder en · NOUN

Etymology

From delude + -er.

Meanings

1. Someone who deludes
   • I saw her no longer as the deluder of Aunt Jane, but as herself the deluded. 1919, Camilla Kenyon, Spanish Doubloons:
   • But I am one who wish that Time, the great deluder, were not so over-masterful. 1887, Mabel Collins, Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold:
   • Or is it that from being a deluder of others he has become at last his own dupe as he is, if report belie him not, his own and his only enjoyer? 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

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