self-deludedadj.

1642 O. Sedgwick England's Preserv. 42 Would not this be a sad and heavy answer to our selfe-deluded soules?

1692 M. Mead Funeral Serm. Thomas Rosewell 25 Thy deeds are all forged, thy evidences were never sealed in the Spirit's Office, but with the counterfeit Seal of a self-deluded heart.

?1725 Harangues Famous Mountebanks 23 Such, whose arrogant Confidence..has enabled them to impose upon the People, either by premeditated Cheats, or, at best, the palpable, dull, and empty Mistakes of their self-deluded Imagination in Physick, Chymical and Galenick.

1767 Gentleman's & London Mag. Feb. 80/2 What the self-deluded, and self-destroyed king said deceitfully.

1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 316 Self-deluded nymphs and swains, Who dream they have a taste for fields and groves.

1855 F. Douglass My Bondage & my Freedom vii. 111 Lurking beneath all their dishes, are invisible spirits of evil, ready to feed the self-deluded gormandizers with aches, pains, fierce temper..and gout.

1884 Leeds Mercury 24 Oct. 4/4 He had warned the self-deluded members of the Conservative party.

1919 J. Marks Courage Today & Tomorrow iii. 26 Sometimes we are so self-deluded that the bad may be made to seem the good.

1970 Amer. Hist. Rev. 75 2087 Denouncing selfish and self-deluded German ruling classes and their socialist chauvinist lackeys.

2014 Time Out Kuala Lumpur Mar. 61/2 Being eager and earnest and fairly self-deluded is, to the cool and the hip, the ultimate disaster.