"undeceive" meaning in English

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          "text": "[I]t is a deed of higheſt charitie to help undeceive the people, and a vvork vvorthieſt your autoritie, in all things els authors, aſſertors and novv recoverers of our libertie, to deliver us, the only people of all Proteſtants left ſtill undeliverd, from the oppreſſions of a Simonious decimating clergie; […]",
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          "text": "Undeceived in her expectations and chilled in her hopes, the heart of Cecilia no longer struggled to sustain its dignity, or conceal its tenderness […]",
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          "ref": "1863 January 3, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 1, in Pauline’s Passion and Punishment: Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, volume XV, number 379, page 229:",
          "text": "If you think that this loss has broken my heart undeceive yourself, for such as I live years in an hour and show no sign.",
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