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Webster 1913 Edition


Deluder

De-lud′er

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Noun.
One who deludes; a deceiver; an impostor.

Webster 1828 Edition


Deluder

DELUDER

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Noun.
One who deceives; a deceiver; an imposter; one who holds out false pretenses.

Definition 2024


deluder

deluder

English

Noun

deluder (plural deluders)

  1. Someone who deludes
    • 1887, Mabel Collins, Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold:
      But I am one who wish that Time, the great deluder, were not so over-masterful.
    • 1919, Camilla Kenyon, Spanish Doubloons:
      I saw her no longer as the deluder of Aunt Jane, but as herself the deluded.
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
      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?