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Definition of Disabuses
1. disabuse [v] - See also: disabuse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disabuses
Literary usage of Disabuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lindores Abbey and Its Burgh of Newburgh: Their History and Annals by Alexander Laing (1876)
"... signed by the Plurality of the Inhabitants of the Burgh representing and
holding forth the many disabuses that are committed at Burials both before and ..."
2. Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments with Critical Notes, Commentary, and by Sophocles (1913)
"Electra disabuses her, repeating the messenger's sad tale, and entreats her aid
in executing the resolve to slay with her own hands their unnatural mother ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1859)
"It pioneers a channel hitherto not attempted, disabuses the long and universally
circulated re|>ort of all travellers,—" That the ..."
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