Meanings
comparative more deludable · superlative most deludable
- Capable of being deluded; gullible.
[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 352 more examples
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. 5One 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
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