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undeceave

undeceave is the obsolete form of undeceive.

Meaning of undeceive

Verb

undeceive (third-person singular simple present undeceives, present participle undeceiving, simple past and past participle undeceived)

  1. (transitive) To free from misconception, deception or error.
    • [I]t is a deed of higheſt charitie to help undeceive the people, and a vvork vvorthieſt your autoritie, in all things els authors, aſſertors and novv recoverers of our libertie, to deliver us, the only people of all Proteſtants left ſtill undeliverd, from the oppreſſions of a Simonious decimating...1659, J[ohn] M[ilton], “To the Parlament of the Commonwealth of England with the Dominions therof”, in Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church. […], London...
    Synonyms:
    disabuse

Forms of undeceave

third-person singular presentundeceaves
present participleundeceaving
past participleundeceaved
pastundeceaved

Questions about undeceave

What is undeceave the obsolete form of?
Undeceave is the obsolete form of undeceive.

Words near undeceave in the dictionary

  1. undecayable
  2. undecayed
  3. undecaying
  4. undecazinc
  5. undeceased
  6. undeceave
  7. undeceaves
  8. undeceitful
  9. undeceitfully
  10. undeceivable
  11. undeceivableness

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