deluder

English

Etymology

delude +‎ -er

Noun

deluder (plural deluders)

1. Someone who deludes
   • 1887, Mabel Collins, Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold‎^[1]:

     But I am one who wish that Time, the great deluder, were not so over-masterful.

   • 1919, Camilla Kenyon, Spanish Doubloons‎^[2]:

     I saw her no longer as the deluder of Aunt Jane, but as herself the deluded.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses‎^[3]:

     Or is it that from being a deluder of others he has become at last his own dupe as he is, if report belie him not, his own and his only enjoyer?

Anagrams

• dreuled