Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To free or deprive of illusion.
- noun The act of disenchanting.
- noun The condition or fact of being disenchanted.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To free from illusion; disenchant.
- noun A freeing or becoming free from illusion; the state of being disillusioned or disenchanted; disenchantment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.
- transitive verb To free from an illusion; to disillusionize.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
free ordeprive ofillusion ; todisenchant . - noun countable The act or process of
disenchanting or freeing from a false belief. - noun uncountable The state of having been or process of becoming freed of false belief.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun freeing from false belief or illusions
- verb free from enchantment
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mr. Barber 's 1935 recording with the Curtis String Quartet of "Dover Beach," his own setting of Matthew Arnold' s classic poem of Victorian disillusion, is a technically polished, sensitively interpreted performance that has never been bettered.
Unforgettable in More Than One Way Terry Teachout 2010
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So renewal, not disillusion, is the agenda before us.
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L. E.L.'s poetry invokes illusions as its materials; disillusion is then its plot: 10 "day by day/Some new illusion is destroyed, and life/Gets cold and colder on towards its close" (ll.
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We call our disillusion with democracy "politics" and let it go at that.
A Sense of Urgency 2006
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Those who live by wishful thinking perish in disillusion.
The Uncertain Future 1946
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As time passes, and the hour of the train draws near, he begins to reflect vaguely on his project; he recalls the disillusion of the visit he had once paid to Holland.
Figures of Several Centuries Arthur Symons 1905
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For most of Labour's Mondeo movers, their disillusion has been a considered, long-term process.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Maybe some people disseminate a kind of disillusion just to further just to attract some votes.
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Maybe some people disseminate a kind of disillusion just to further just to attract some votes.
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In the Chirton area of Tynemouth, scene of violent riots in 1991 during the prior Conservative government, 77-year-old former shipworker Thomas Grounsell said he would give the Labour government a five-out-of-10 rating for its record since 1997, the kind of disillusion that some political observers believe will persuade traditional Labour voters to stay home Thursday.
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