undeceivev.
/ˌʌndᵻˈsiːv/, U.S. /ˌəndəˈsiv/, /ˌəndiˈsiv/ 1. reflexive.1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Eeee/1 To undeceive himself, se desabuser.1708 J. Hughes tr. Fontenelle Dial. i. v. 21 Undeceive yourself, I beseech you.1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux I. ii. vii. 219 It is hard to undeceive ourselves.1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right I. ii. 31 My heart had only now undeceived itself.
a. transitive. To free (a person) from deception or mistake; to deliver from an erroneous idea.
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society > communication > information > enlightenment > enlighten [verb (transitive)] > undeceive
to bring (a person) to reasona1400
to set (also put) someone right1551
unhoodwink1585
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unbeguile1599
disabuse1611
disdeceive1622
disinveigle1635
clarify1642
unconfound1649
uncheat1650
undelude1651
ungull1652
unpervert1655
unseduce1664
unbewilder1668
unclouda1711
disillude1860
disillusionize1861
disillusion1864
de-bamboozle1919
straighten1956
society > communication > information > enlightenment > enlighten [verb (reflexive)] > undeceive
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1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Disingannare, to vndeceiue, to cleare, to free or resolue from any doubt.
1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism Pref. sig. b1 If this much will not undeceive the misled, let them for me be deceived still.
1687 T. Brown Saints in Uproar in Wks. (1730) I. 83 I am resolved to undeceive mankind.
1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 215 I think my self oblig'd to undeceive the Publick.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxv. 46 Nothing less than your own misfortunes can undeceive you.
1839 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. VII. liv. 305 No sooner was he undeceived in this particular, than he dispatched the most pressing orders.
1875 W. S. Hayward Love against World 45 I will very soon undeceive his lordship.
b. Const. of (an error, etc.).
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1653 W. Ramesey Astrologia Restaurata To Rdr. 1 To undeceive my Country men of such Calumnies as are cast upon this..study.
1723 J. Clarke tr. Rohault's Syst. Nat. Philos. I. Pref. sig. b5 A Man who had undeceived the World of an ancient Errour.
1823 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War I. 427 He was undeceived of both errors in the Peninsula.
2. To instruct by removal of error.
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society > communication > information > action of informing > give (information) [verb (transitive)] > inform (a person) > by removal of error
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1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης i. 13 Thus much be said in general to his Prayers;..anough to undeceive us what esteem we are to set upon the rest.
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