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Definition of Delusive

Delusive
Delusive De*lu"sive, a. [See Delude.] Apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind; deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive dream. Delusive and unsubstantial ideas. --Whewell. -- De*lu"sive*ly, adv. -- De*lu"sive*ness, n.

Meaning of Delusive from wikipedia

- leaders such as Václav Havel and Nelson Mandela – now looks battered and delusive." Michael Ignatieff wrote that ****uyama's idea of liberalism vanquishing...
- Eynsham: "Witches still go to cross-roads and to heathen burials with their delusive magic and call to the devil; and he comes to them in the likeness of the...
- enlightened consciousness enabling one to comprehend the impermanent (illusive, delusive) and permanent (true, transcendent) reality. Examples of this are found...
- Kenyon 2002, p. 17 Barker 1995, p. 179 Erskine, Ann (2018). ""Fevered with Delusive Bliss": Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and the Ambiguous Pleasures of the...
- on Hesiod's description, there has been debate whether Elpis was only a delusive belief in good things to follow, or more generally expectation. According...
- in the 1990s, a pop star's home is broken in by an obsessive fan who delusively believes they are getting married and mani****tes their surroundings to...
-  1010): Witches still go to cross-roads and to heathen burials with their delusive magic and call to the devil; and he comes to them in the likeness of the...
- – the effacement, as Schomburgk wrote, "of those last vestiges of that delusive bubble, El Dorado". Despite its dismissal as a myth, the subject of El...
- Senator Stanford. Reasons why the Laboring Man Should Be His Own Employer—Delusive Theories About the Distribution of Wealth". New-York Tribune. May 4, 1887...
- at Ephesus suggests why so little remains at the site: Destroying the delusive image of the demon Artemis, Demeas has erected this symbol of Truth, the...