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Definition of Disabuse
1. Verb. Free somebody (from an erroneous belief).
Definition of Disabuse
1. v. t. To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right.
Definition of Disabuse
1. Verb. (transitive) To free (someone) (term of) a misconception or misapprehension; to unveil a falsehood held by (somebody). ¹
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Definition of Disabuse
1. to free from false or mistaken ideas [v -ABUSED, -ABUSING, -ABUSES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disabuse
Literary usage of Disabuse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"... it would not only disabuse Antiochus (who was hi- .lames II. therto kept in
the Dark), but it would perhaps convict poor A masis of some Ingratitude ..."
2. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1918)
"Did not disabuse their minds of that. I thought that was honorable enough."
Suppose, when I get through with this trial, I should go to Canada, ..."
3. Philadelphia Medical Times (1882)
"... has prevented us from seeing what is quite evident when we disabuse our minds
of all preconceived notions. It is well known that all organic substances, ..."
4. The Speeches of the Late Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart.: Delivered by Robert Peel (1853)
"... to disabuse the over-sanguine expectations which the country seemed to entertain
at present respecting that colony. SLAVERY IN THE COLONIES. ..."
5. A History of the San Juan Water Boundary Question, as Affecting the Division by William Fitzwilliam Milton (1869)
"... which, if any were required, I need hardly say, would have been quite sufficient
to disabuse me of any doubt I might have entertained on the subject. ..."
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