disillusionizing

And yet I realize the awfulness and vastness of these great living creatures far more than in the belittling and disillusionizing daylight.

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

When his earlier intention reoccurred to him in the train, he dismissed it with the thought that what he had seen would be more effective, more disillusionizing, than what he had merely heard.

A Daughter of To-Day Sara Jeannette Duncan

Heaven knows what disillusionizing thing Jack had said to him that day! ...

The Fortieth Door Mary Hastings Bradley

Even in the matter of disillusionizing a woman, they want to do that for themselves.

The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Coningsby Dawson 1921

I've had a disillusionizing experience in this sort of thing which you were spared.

The Bent Twig Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

He forgot that he had had no supper; forgot in that delectable anticipation the disillusionizing experiences of the day.

The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

I have thrown what I have to say about the exaltation of Synge to the forefront of what I have to say of him, that all may be read in the memory of this emphasis and of the exaltation of what I quote, no matter how fantastic or grotesque or disillusionizing or even ghoulish it may be.

Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt 1914

There are those who, because of the irony of his writing, an irony that is new to literature, and, maybe, to some cruel, or at least disillusionizing, may think there was little joy for him; but the truth is there was never a writer in whom there was more joy.

Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt 1914

Rather disillusionizing, certainly, but not so much so as my talk with the elegant M. Capoul, who was presented to me when he came strolling around into the house.

Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911

Likewise the night life of San Francisco, of which in times past I had read so much, was disillusionizing, because it wasn't visible to the naked eye.

Roughing it De Luxe John T. McCutcheon 1910