self-deceit

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Self-deception.

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self-deceit - a misconception that is favorable to the person who holds it

self-deception

misconception - an incorrect conception

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misconception self self-deception Self-imposture			I will soon explain to what these feelings tended, but allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors(for so I loved, in an innocent, half-painful self-deceit, to call them). Frankenstein by Shelley, Mary View in context Whatever gloss the various spectators put upon the interest, according to their several arts and powers of self-deceit, the interest was, at the root of it, Ogreish. A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context Grant, really eager to get any change for her sister, could, by the easiest self-deceit, persuade herself that she was doing the kindest thing by Fanny, and giving her the most important opportunities of improvement in pressing her frequent calls. Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane View in context			self-consciously self-consciousness Self-considering Self-consistency Self-consistent self-constituted Self-consuming self-contained Self-contained steam engine Self-contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus self-contemplation self-content self-contentment self-contradiction self-contradictory self-control self-controlled Self-convicted Self-conviction self-correcting Self-created self-critical self-criticism self-cultivation Self-culture self-deceit self-deceived self-deceiving self-deception self-defeating self-defence self-defense Self-defensive self-definition Self-degradation Self-delation self-delusion self-denial self-denying Self-dependent Self-depending Self-depraved self-deprecating self-deprecatory self-depreciation self-destroy Self-destroyer self-destroying fuze self-destruct self-destruction self-destructive			self-correcting Self-Correcting Automatic Navigation self-correction self-correction Self-Correction Program self-corrections self-corrections self-corrective self-corrective self-corrects self-corrects self-counsel self-coved Self-created self-creating self-creation self-critical self-critical self-critically self-criticism self-criticism self-criticisms self-criticisms self-cultivation Self-culture self-cure self-curing resin self-curing resin self-curing resin Self-dealing self-deceit self-deceits self-deceived self-deceiver self-deceivers self-deceiving self-deception self-deceptions self-deceptive self-deceptively Self-Declaration of Conformance self-defeating Self-Defeating Behavior self-defeating personality (disorder) self-defeating personality (disorder) self-defeating personality (disorder) self-defeating personality (disorder) Self-defeating personality disorder Self-defeating personality disorder self-defence self-defence self-defence Self-defence (law) Self-defence (law) Self-defence (law) Self-Defence Force Self-Defence Force Self-Defence Forces Self-Defence Forces Self-Defending Network self-defense

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