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Definition of Disenchantingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disenchantingly
Literary usage of Disenchantingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1872)
"... disenchantingly, like a loose lid to a box) to bear it away. In the poetry of
their imitation, it is on its route to the sepulchre; the gates of the ..."
2. Studies and Appreciations by William SHARP, Elizabeth Amelia Sharp (1912)
"Those repetitive phrasings which Maeterlinck uses with such effect (though
sometimes disenchantingly) in La Princesse Maleine, ..."
3. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by George Woodyatt Hastings, Andrew Edgar, Charles Wager Ryalls, Edwin Pears (1863)
"Let it never be read carelessly, blunderingly, dissonantly to the ear, disenchantingly
to the mind. I cannot doubt but that the religious instincts are by ..."
4. Europe in China: The History of Hongkong from the Beginning to the Year 1882 by Ernest John Eitel (1895)
"His actual occupations in Canton were, however, of a disenchantingly humble
description and even during his short tenure of the Acting Superintendency in ..."
5. Spain and Its People: A Record of Recent Travel by William Henry Davenport Adams (1872)
"... lofty roofs, Gothic and Greco-Roman ornaments contrast most disenchantingly
with the Moorish style of the Mosque, and whose colossal mass, ..."
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