Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective freeing from illusion, credulity, overoptimism, or false belief.

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  • verb Present participle of disenchant.

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  • adjective freeing from illusion or false belief

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Examples

  • "I can't say that I knocked on every door," he says, "but the few that I did, didn't respond the way I wanted them to, so I think it was kind of disenchanting enough for me to go back to being subterranean."

    Tony Sachs: Author (Still) Unknown: The Brilliant Music and Star-Crossed Career of Jason Falkner 2010

  • The chief instance of the outer use of water that comes to mind is Eustace-the-dragon's "disenchanting" bath; for the inner use, the adventurers' reaching of the place where "the waves grow sweet" in the utter East and where they drink this "liquid light".

    Archive 2007-01-01 Donna Farley 2007

  • The chief instance of the outer use of water that comes to mind is Eustace-the-dragon's "disenchanting" bath; for the inner use, the adventurers' reaching of the place where "the waves grow sweet" in the utter East and where they drink this "liquid light".

    Water and Spirit Donna Farley 2007

  • I hope his life isn't ruined by Salinger, who has more than a little practice at disenchanting adolescents.

    Me and J.D. Salinger at Burger King Con Chapman 2011

  • After dinner was over, my mother went to take a hot bath, the dishwasher stopped running, and the silence became disenchanting.

    The Adults Alison Espach 2011

  • Not many of the delegates retained their enthusiasm for Mao's China through the deeply disenchanting years of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.

    A quick peek behind China's wall Post 2011

  • Not many of the delegates retained their enthusiasm for Mao's China through the deeply disenchanting years of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.

    A quick peek behind China's wall Post 2011

  • The movement of the ribbons that constitutes it, brings to the different floors, just skimming them and disenchanting the possibility to recognize the geometry and the static.

    Armani on 5th Avenue by Doriana and Massimiliano Fuksas 2009

  • In all, although I was offered a DSLR at cost (so no real sacrifice on behalf of Pentax) I found the whole affair very disenchanting.

    A Model Complaint Letter (And Why You Should Never Travel On National Express) | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • On the other, I find it somewhat disenchanting that something so frightening and sacrosanct can be achieved and nullified by such relatively simple means.

    Overlooked Movie Monday: Near Dark » Scene-Stealers 2010

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