127 adjectives to describe delusions

"Could anything show better that it is a mere delusion?

But as nothing more happened she began to think less of the significance of what she had seen, in fact almost persuaded herself that it had been something of an optical delusion.

By these means I put it from me, as it were, by force, not thinking it worthy of notice and often praying to be delivered from such a gross delusion.

With these follies mingled sweet delusions, which I loved so well I would not outgrow them, even when it required a voluntary effort to put a momentary trust in them.

Dearer!O, I cannot tell thee What a load was swept away, What a world of doubt and darkness Faded in the dawning day! All my error, all my weakness, All my vain delusions fled: Hope again revived, and gladness Waved its wings above my head.

" "There is but one language for youth, when seduced by that pleasing delusion which paints the future with hues of gold.

The want of discernment of what was going on outside the sphere of her own psychology led her into fatal delusions as to the attitude of England, of Ireland, of Belgium, Italy, India, and so forth.

"Almost," I say, for as a matter of fact I was never for a moment under any such pleasant delusion.

Most manifest facts and stern realities dissipated, in an hour when they little thought of it, such a fond delusion.

On his admission he explained with the utmost feeling that the object of his visit was to acknowledge the deepest debt of obligation; "that to her he owed, in the first instance, that faith and those hopes which were now more precious to him than life itself; for that it was by reading her poem of 'The Sceptic' he had been first awakened from the miserable delusion of infidelity and induced to 'search the Scriptures.'"

Phenomena of meteors, optic delusions, spectra, etc. CHAPTER XVII.

But these were the dreams of a man who sought to allay his fears by voluntary delusions.

On reading such words, it is natural to rub one's eyes, and suspect that all one has ever seen in this world may have been a pure ocular delusion.

I have become subject to a hideous delusion.

But Don John's conduct soon destroyed the temporary delusion which had deceived the country.

What in the original was literally "amiable delusions of the fancy," he proposed, to render "the fair frauds of the imagination."

As it was, his aversion to religion, in the sense usually attached to the term, was of the same kind with that of Lucretius: he regarded it with the feelings due not to a mere mental delusion, but to a great moral evil.

Now, as the most absurd delusions existed as to the wealth of Louisiana, and the most boundless faith was placed in Law's financiering; and as only Law's bills could purchase shares in the Company which was to make everybody's fortune,gold and silver flowed to his bank.

In fact, I went more than once; but I remember especially my first visit, which had a livelier sentimental interest than the others because I was then under the agreeable delusion that the Prince himself had lived there.

At twelve he went to Cambridge, but left the university after two years, declaring the whole plan of education to be radically wrong, and the system of Aristotle, which was the basis of all philosophy in those days, to be a childish delusion, since in the course of centuries it had "produced no fruit, but only a jungle of dry and useless branches."

He raised his hand to rub his eyes and to assure himself that it was not a cruel delusion.

Mr. NORMAN MCKINNEL as Wachner easily contrived to convey the typically Teuton blend of brutishness, and domestic sentimentality, combined with the heavy playfulness which by a curious delusion, ineradicably racial, is mistaken over there for humour.

For, unless she were really crazycrazyand in that case she ought to be put in the lunatic asylumshe could not keep up, for any length of time, the extraordinary and outrageous delusion that he would be willing to renew the feelings that he had entertained for her in her youth.

As the old lawyer walked slowly home with his hands clasped behind his back he pondered upon the seeming mockery and injustice of the law that forced a lonely, half-demented old fellow with the fixed delusion that he was a financier behind prison bars and left free the sharp slick crook who had no bowels or mercies and would snatch away the widow's mite and leave her and her consumptive daughter to die in the poorhouse.

It is, therefore, a foolish delusion to suppose, that, as the world grows more pacific, the demand for physical courage passes away.

127 adjectives to describe  delusions