All 5 Uses of
deceive
in
Childhood's End
- The plan was an ingenious one, and it was quite possible that Karellen had been deceived.†
Chpt 3deceived = lied or misled
- He had simply taken it for granted: the whole thing had been a piece of psychological trickery, and he had been completely deceived.†
Chpt 4 *
- Yet it had been far more than a matter of playing with light, for radar had also been deceived, and there were still men alive who swore that they had heard the shriek of torn air as the fleet came in through the skies of Earth.†
Chpt 5
- I will not deceive you.†
Chpt 18deceive = lie or mislead
- Perhaps he was deceiving himself, perhaps this was some merciful trick of the mind, but now it seemed to Jan that this was what he had always wished to do.†
Chpt 23deceiving = lying or misleading
Definition:
to lie to or mislead someone -- occasionally to lie to oneself by denying reality