deludable
adjEtymology From delude + -able.
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Capable of being deluded; gullible.
- For well understanding the omniscience of his nature, he is not so ready to deceive himself, as to falsifie unto him whose cognition is no way deludable.1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 2, p. 5:
- [That] is too absurd to be mentioned by the most malignant calumniator, or to be credited by the most deludable dupe.1799, Arthur O’Connor, Arthur O’Connor’s Letter to Lord Castlereagh, page 35:
1 more example
- One could simply stop the argument there, dismiss the resurrection as a lie, and declare belief in the risen Jesus to be the product of a deludable mind.2013, Reza Aslan, chapter 13, in Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, Random House:
- Derived terms
- undeludable