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English
Etymology
From Latin decipiens, present participle of decipere. See deceive.
Pronunciation
Noun
decipiency (uncountable)
- (obsolete) hallucination or deception.
1690, Sir Thomas Browne, A Letter to a Friend:[…] mean while Physicians, who know that many are mad but in a single depraved Imagination, and one prevalent Decipiency; […] and tho they behold such mad covetous Passages, content to think they dye in good Understanding, and in their sober Senses.
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