undeception
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editundeception (countable and uncountable, plural undeceptions)
- The point of being undeceived or freed from a misconception.
- 1916, Arnold Bennett, The Roll-Call[1]:
- He was constantly thinking that he knew everything or could imagine everything, and constantly undergoing the shock of undeception; but the shock of the Longchamps Sunday was excessive.
- 1878, Richard Chenevix Trench, Lectures on Medieval Church History[2]:
- If any had flattered themselves that with the death of Huss the Reformation in Bohemia had also received its death-blow, they had not long to wait for a painful undeception.