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Delusory

adjective
1.
Causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true.  Synonym: deceptive.  "A delusory pleasure"






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"Delusory" Quotes from Famous Books



... communications from God, is to make the soul die to self. An eminent saint remarks, that she had often experienced illuminations from the angel of darkness, more pleasing, more enticing, than those that came from God. Those delusory manifestations, however, leave the soul in a disturbed state, while those that come from God humble, tranquilise and establish the soul in Him. The most dangerous seductions are those, which assume the garb of religion and have the ...
— Letters of Madam Guyon • P. L. Upham

... conditions of a given patient's environment? In a few cases it seemed that something like a close correlation did exist between such allopsychic delusions and the conditions which had surrounded the patient—the delusory fears of insane merchants ran on commercial ruin, and certain women dealt in their delusions largely with domestic debacles. But on the whole, we could NOT say that, as the somatic delusions seemed to grow out of and somewhat fairly ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10



Words linked to "Delusory" :   delude, deceptive, unreal



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