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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
disenchant .
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Examples
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The modern view disenchants the universe, Lewis argued, and tends to make it “all fact and no meaning.”
Archive 2008-04-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2008
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The modern view disenchants the universe, Lewis argued, and tends to make it “all fact and no meaning.”
Escaping The Waning of the Middle Ages Mary Kate Hurley 2008
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Nothing disenchants potential viewers than the cancellation of a series 3 episodes in.
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That is to say, positivism “disenchants” nature -- along with everything that can be studied by the sciences, whether natural, social or human.
Environmental Ethics Brennan, Andrew 2008
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Nothing disenchants potential viewers than the cancellation of a series 3 episodes in.
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I understand there's also some nameds that you can skip to in instances who always drop an item that always disenchants into a large shard. 5g? or so for 15 minutes work.
Atanarjuat 2005
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Plato both enchants and disenchants eros, and we need both.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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Plato both enchants and disenchants eros, and we need both.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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The charm lay partly in their very imperfection; for this is suggestive, and sets the imagination at work; whereas, the finished picture, if a good one, leaves the spectator nothing to do, and if bad, confuses, stupefies, disenchants, and disheartens him.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin
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Seeing him so thin, the witch calls for more food and while she turns her back, Gretel quickly takes up the juniper bough, and speaking the formula, disenchants her brother.
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley
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