deluder
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]deluder (plural deluders)
- Someone who deludes
- 1887, Mabel Collins, Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold[1]:
- But I am one who wish that Time, the great deluder, were not so over-masterful.
- 1919, Camilla Kenyon, Spanish Doubloons[2]:
- I saw her no longer as the deluder of Aunt Jane, but as herself the deluded.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses[3]:
- 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?