Undeceived

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.] Not deceived or imposed upon.

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c. 1400. Apol. Loll., 15. To haue þe more clere and vndeceyuid knowyng of þis mater.

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1529. More, Dyaloge, II. Wks. 186/2. It may, well … happen, that the good men wel beleuing & vndeceiued, be those that beleue the worship of ymages & praying to saintes to be ydolatry.

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1747. Ld. Lyttelton, Monody, xii. A prudence undeceiving, undeceiv’d, That nor too little, nor too much believ’d.

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1799. Wordsw., Ruth, 148. Deliberately, and undeceived, Those wild men’s vices he received.

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1827. [see UNDECEIVABLE a. 2].

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absol. 1832. Wordsw., Rural Illusions, 20. The World’s illusive shows … For the undeceived … Are melancholy things.

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Hence Undeceivedness.

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1685. [see UNDECEIVABLENESS].

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