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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
deception/dɪˈsepʃn/
▶noun the action of deceiving.
■ a thing that deceives.
– origin ME: from late L. deceptio(n-), from decipere ‘deceive’.
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