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Deceivable   Listen
adjective
Deceivable  adj.  
1.
Fitted to deceive; deceitful. (Obs.) "The fraud of deceivable traditions."
2.
Subject to deceit; capable of being misled. "Blind, and thereby deceivable."





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"Deceivable" Quotes from Famous Books



... one flesh, and in other things twain. For why, neither of them had power of his own flesh. They were both naked and were not ashamed, for they stood both in the state of innocence. Then the serpent which was hotter than any beast of the earth and naturally deceivable, for he was full of the devil Lucifer, which was deject and cast out of heaven, had great envy to man that was bodily in Paradise, and knew well, if he might make him to trespass and break God's commandments, that he ...
— Bible Stories and Religious Classics • Philip P. Wells
... marmusets tailed, Nifles and trifles that little have availed, And things with which they featly blear our eye, With things not enduring that we buy; For much of this chaffare that is wastable, Might be forborne for dear and deceivable." ...
— How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves - Updated to 1900 • W.H.G. Kingston
... so by her maiden Bilhah we understand imagination. And, therefore, reason sheweth that it is more profitable for to think on ghostly things, in what manner so it be; yea, if it be in kindling of our desire with some fair imagination; than it is for to think on vanities and deceivable things of this world. And, therefore, of Bilhah were born these two: Dan and Naphtali. Dan is to say sight of pains to come; and Naphtali, sight of joys to come. These two children are full needful and full speedful unto a working soul; the ...
— The Cell of Self-Knowledge - Seven Early English Mystical Treaties • Various


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