Meaning of ingannation | Babel Free

Definitions

Cheating; deception.

countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“Thus having been deceived by themselves, and continually deluded by others, they must needs be stuffed with errors […] whereunto whosoever shall resigne their reasons, either from the root of deceit in themselves, or inability to resist such triviall ingannations from others; although their condition and fortunes may place them many Spheres above the multitude, yet are they still within the line of vulgarity, and Democraticall enemies of truth.”

“While I am not able by any kind of searching to find out God, in the sense of the religions, while I get no glimpse whatever of any source of nature, and refuse to beguile myself or others with any ingannation or pretence on the subject, I have nevertheless as deep and as constraining a faith as any theist can possibly have, in the holiness and power which are in nature […]”

“And close as mortar cleaveth unto bricks, To buying and selling ingannation sticks.”

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