undeceive

easily by a quick machinegun bullet which does not undeceive. Mailer

The things are going out of government's control, but it is still undeceive on the negotiation process", Shah added.

Indeed, according to the Duden etymological dictionary, the verb "enttauschen" (now the standard German word for "disappointment") entered the language as late as the nineteenth century as a substitute word for the French "detromper" and "desabuser." The strict meaning of "enttauschen" is "to undeceive" or "to disillusion," terms which certainly overlap (as Schopenhauer conceded that similar words tend to do) with "disappoint" but are not synonymous with it: "disillusion" conveys the notion of a belief-being crushed or undermined (often with a positive recognition that "the scales have fallen from one's eyes"), whereas "disappoint" conveys the more emotionally dispiriting reaction to a desire, hope or expectation having being thwarted.

(449) As the Speaker of the Commons stated on July 31, 1661, "[W]e held it our Duty to undeceive the People, who have been poisoned with an Opinion, that the Militia of this Nation was in themselves, or in their Representatives in Parliament; and, according to the ancient known Laws, we have declared the sole right of the Militia to be in Your Majesty." (450)

When Isabella explicitly tells Catherine of John's interest in marrying her, Catherine asks her friend to "undeceive him as soon as you can" (145).

Or, as Melville exclaimed in the poem "Shiloh: A Requiem," "What like a bullet can undeceive!"

Like Lucretius he had sought to undeceive his own thought to scrape through the encrustation of myth..."

The third text was one I composed on the basis of some passages in Freud's letters and essays, and it shows the path that took him, during the period of his first hysteric patients, to deceive and undeceive himself regarding the trauma of childhood sexual seduction, in the process acquiring an ear for the unconscious.

When leaves found him at the hall door, he was ignorant of the Representative, but shook hands affably with Nixon, saying "Glad to see you--but go into the kitchen for an hour--we've got a dinner and I can't speak to you now." Poor Nixon tried to undeceive him as to his altered position, but it was not until Bancroft, the Aide, came to his rescue, that he was got into the Drawing Room.

The replica may thus deceive us for a time, but it must also undeceive us.

After each of his games of illusion, Cervantes feels obligated to raise the issue of verisimilitude in order to undeceive his reader.

Chamberlin that my case was a severe attack of congestion of the brain, that seeing that I was of the impression that it was intermittent fever he did not wish to undeceive me as it was all important that my mind should be as quiet and undisturbed as possible.