Delude meaning

Verb: delude

Pronunciation: (di’lood)

Delude meaning: To cause someone to believe something that is not true. To mislead the mind or judgement of someone. Be dishonest with.

Synonyms: cozen, hoodwink, beguile, gull

Derived forms: deludes, deluded, deluding

Quotations: Bhagavad Gita – There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Ramana Maharshi – It is not enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being. Do not delude yourself by imagining such a source to be some God outside you. One’s source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba – Since I move about with you, eat like you, and talk with you, you are deluded in the belief that this is but an instance of common humanity. Be warned against this mistake. I am also deluding you by My singing with you, talking with you, and engaging myself in activities with you. But, any movement, my divinity may be revealed to you; you have to be ready, prepared for that moment.

Atharva Veda – In the love of duality, it wanders deluded by doubt. The mind is distracted by great anxiety; no one recognizes one’s own self. Occupied with their own affairs, their nights and days are passing away.

William Butler Yeats – In Imagination only we find a human faculty that touches nature at one side, and spirit on the other. Imagination may be described as that which is sent bringing spirit to nature, entering into nature, and seemingly losing its spirit, that nature being revealed as symbol may lose the power to delude.

Sample sentences:

1. Mr. Bush and his gang do know what they’re doing, and Blair, unless he really is the deluded idiot he often appears to be, also knows what they’re doing.
2. You see through love, and that deludes your sight, as what is straight seems crooked through the water.
3. I don’t mind the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the unromantic scientific facts of life, I find it hard to delude myself about feminine frailty.
4. Those who do not understand the nature of sin and virtue are attached to duality, they wander around deluded.
5. The love of Maya has ruined the world, people die, to be re born, over and over again. People die to be re born, over and over again, while their sins steadily increase, without spiritual wisdom, they are deluded.
6. I wanted to ask him more about the Bible, if he thinks it’s all deluded. He groups all religions together. I’d have liked to discuss the merits of salvation by grace, a truly unique concept.
7. Celebrities deserve protection of their reputation and legal rights when the occasional fan becomes dangerous or deluded.
8. It is obviously in the interest of Sovereign management to attempt to avoid a shareholder vote until after shareholders have been deluded.
9. I don’t want to delude myself. No one lives forever. But I want him to have this book experience. To enjoy his legacy.
10. We are great believers in democracy and capitalism and we think it would be wonderful if shareholders would have an opportunity to vote before they are deluded.