Word Meanings - DECEPTIVENESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The power or habit of deceiving; tendency or aptness to deceive.
Related words: (words related to DECEPTIVENESS)
- HABITURE
Habitude. - POWERFUL
Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any - POWERABLE
1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden. - HABITED
1. Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd. 2. Fixed by habit; accustomed. So habited he was in sobriety. Fuller. 3. Inhabited. Another world, which is habited by the ghosts of men and women. Addison. - HABITUATION
The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated. - DECEIVER
One who deceives; one who leads into error; a cheat; an impostor. The deceived and the deceiver are his. Job xii. 16. Syn. -- Deceiver, Impostor. A deceiver operates by stealth and in private upon individuals; an impostor practices his arts on the - HABITUATE
1. To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize. Our English dogs, who were habituated to a colder clime. Sir K. Digby. Men are first corrupted . . . and next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices. Tillotson. 2. To settle as an - HABITATION
1. The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy. Denham. 2. Place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house. The Lord . . . blesseth the habitation of the just. Prov. iii. 33. - HABITUDE
1. Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to something else; established or usual relations. South. The same ideas having immutably the same habitudes one to another. Locke. The verdict of the judges was biased by nothing else - HABITAT
The natural abode, locality or region of an animal or plant. 2. Place where anything is commonly found. This word has its habitat in Oxfordshire. Earle. - POWERLESS
Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect. -- Pow"er*less*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*less*ness, n. - TENDENCY
Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result. Writings of this kind, if conducted with candor, have a more particular tendency to the good of their country. - HABITABLE
Capable of being inhabited; that may be inhabited or dwelt in; as, the habitable world. -- Hab"it*a*ble*ness, n. -- Hab"it*a*bly, adv. - DECEIVE
deceive; de- + capere to take, catch. See Capable, and cf. Deceit, 1. To lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to insnare. Evil - HABITUE
One who habitually frequents a place; as, an habitué of a theater. - HABITANCY
See INHABITANCY - HABIT
The general appearance and manner of life of a living organism. 3. Fixed or established custom; ordinary course of conduct; practice; usage; hence, prominently, the involuntary tendency or aptitude to perform certain actions which is acquired by - DECEIVABLE
1. Fitted to deceive; deceitful. The fraud of deceivable traditions. Milton. 2. Subject to deceit; capable of being misled. Blind, and thereby deceivable. Milton. - DECEIVABLENESS
1. Capability of deceiving. With all deceivableness of unrighteousness. 2 Thess. ii. 10. 2. Liability to be deceived or misled; as, the deceivableness of a child. - HABITANCE
Dwelling; abode; residence. Spenser. - INHABITATE
To inhabit. - COHABITER
A cohabitant. Hobbes. - INHABITATIVENESS
A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country. - CANDLE POWER
Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle. - IMPOWER
See EMPOWER - UNDECEIVE
To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South. - INHABITANCE; INHABITANCY
The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy. (more info) 1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of - INHABITATION
1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling. The inhabitation of the Holy Ghost. Bp. Pearson. 2. Abode; place of dwelling; residence. Milton. 3. Population; inhabitants. Sir T. Browne. The beginning of nations and - RECHABITE
One of the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, all of whom by his injunction abstained from the use of intoxicating drinks and even from planting the vine. Jer. xxxv. 2-19. Also, in modern times, a member of a certain society of abstainers - POLICE POWER
The inherent power of a government to regulate its police affairs. The term police power is not definitely fixed in meaning. In the earlier cases in the United States it was used as including the whole power of internal government, or the powers - DISEMPOWER
To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell. - INHABITED
Uninhabited. Brathwait. - ADAPTNESS
Adaptedness. - NONINHABITANT
One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident. - DISHABITED
Rendered uninhabited. "Dishabited towns." R. Carew. - INHABITANT
One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident. (more info) 1. One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city,