disillusion

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Should this ever prove true, his disillusion might be as far-reaching and as sudden as his enthusiasm.

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  1. transitive verb To free or deprive of illusion.
  2. noun The act of disenchanting.
  3. noun The condition or fact of being disenchanted.

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  • And after his agony of disillusion, all his heroes are failures for years and years: Brutus, Hamlet, Macbeth, Lear, Troilus, Antony, and Timon—all fail as he himself had failed. —  The Man Shakespeare
  • Part of my disillusion is because my products and my personal inclination don't fit the norm for LDSBA members. —  A Motley Vision
  • Behind Simon's general disillusion is a disillusionment with journalism, the only work he ever wanted to do. —  The Guardian World News
  • The climax was reached here of disillusion, and of iniquity, and of degradation. —  The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
  • For those years of lonely wandering and spasmodic rage of living, finding their climax in deepening disappointment, disillusion, and the shock of rudely inflicted insult and disgrace, had produced in Richard a profound sense of alienation from society and from the amenities of ordinary intercourse. —  The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
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  1. =F. désillusion; as dis- privative + illusion.
  2. = French désilusionner; from the noun.
 

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/dɪsɪˈljuzhən/
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