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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

- reflections (close of Act II) The king dreams he is a king, And in this delusive way Lives and rules with sovereign sway; All the cheers that round him...
- 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...
- countryman, a hawk and a lion in three more obscure occasions, Dionysus as 'delusive grapes' for Erigone, and finally Cronus as a horse for Philyra. The outer...
- 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...
- 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...
- a heretic and a seducer of people, one of many forms of the māyā-moha (delusive power) of Viṣṇu and recommends complete shunning of Buddhists in order...
- enlightened consciousness enabling one to comprehend the impermanent (illusive, delusive) and permanent (true, transcendent) reality. Examples of this are found...
- even supernatural beings. Mohini is "the impersonation of the magically delusive nature of existence which fetters all beings to the rounds of births and...
- 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...