self-delusion in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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He thinks he's religious, but that's a self-delusion.
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In the sea of self-delusion series three has been, it's a true beacon of honesty.
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Skeptics attribute such putative powers to intentional trickery or self-delusion.
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Luckily, not every act today subscribes to willful showbiz self-delusion, aiming for their 15 minutes.
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They all think they're more intelligent than everyone else, more cultured, that people don't recognise their true greatness self-delusion in every sense.
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Was there some relationship between the franchisees' naivete, perhaps even their willful self-delusion, and their terrible taste?
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Its signal talent as a soccer country is self-delusion.
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But wishing and hoping (and self-delusion) doesn't make it so.
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To progress in any way, we must acknowledge that we, too, stand always in an intimate relation to self-delusion and ignorance.
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Others view wish fulfillment as a bad faith self-delusion.
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