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Definition of Disillusion
1. Noun. Freeing from false belief or illusions.
Generic synonyms: Edification, Sophistication
Derivative terms: Disenchant
2. Verb. Free from enchantment. "The performance is likely to disillusion Sue"
Generic synonyms: Disappoint, Let Down
Derivative terms: Disenchantment, Disillusionment
Antonyms: Enchant
Definition of Disillusion
1. n. The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.
2. v. t. To free from an illusion; to disillusionize.
Definition of Disillusion
1. Verb. (transitive) to free or deprive someone of illusion; to disenchant someone ¹
2. Noun. the act or state of disenchanting or freeing from a false belief ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disillusion
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disillusion
Literary usage of Disillusion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1921)
"... the crying for love in my breast, And the echoless beating of my heart.
disillusion Darkness and the wind are between the tall stones of the temple. ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"If weariness and disillusion may inspire, they must also weaken the art of the
poet who has thus drunken and not known when to throw the cup ..."
3. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"ILLUSION, disillusion, ALLUSION FAIREST of women is she. In all the passion of
youth, In deed and in word and in truth; For time and eternity I woo her, ..."
4. A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue by Stopford Augustus Brooke, Thomass William Hazen Rolleston (1900)
"disillusion 1 Say a clay without the ever.' As You Lite II. Yot'R proud eyes give
me their wearied splendour ; Your cold loose touch and your colder smile ..."
5. History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages by Ferdinand Gregorovius, Annie Hamilton, Irving Stone (1894)
"... RAISES THE SIEGE OF ROME—ARRIVAL OF THE BYZANTINE ENVOYS—THEIR disillusion—SUBMISSION
OF ... disillusion ..."
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