Disillusion
[,dɪsɪ'l(j)uːʒ(ə)n] or [,dɪsɪ'luʒn]
Definition
(n.) The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.
(v. t.) To free from an illusion; to disillusionize.
Checker: Wade
Examples
- That had been the first big disillusion to him a few months back and he had started to be cynical to himself about it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Do not say anything to disillusion them. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- France, now disillusioned and uncomfortably royalist again, was hot in pursuit of him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Possibly they were somewhat disillusioned about the present instruments of the taboo; perhaps they imagined that a new broom would sweep clean. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I am disillusioned. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- So that while the eleventh century was a century of ignorant and confiding men, the thirteenth was an age of knowing and disillusioned men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The end of the eighteenth century was a period of disrupting empires and disillusioned expansionists. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Before the evening was half over, Jo felt so completely disillusioned, that she sat down in a corner to recover herself. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Typist: Martha