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Meanings of disenchantment in English

Portuguese
desencantamento
Catalan
desengany
Spanish
desencanto

Freeing from false belief or illusions.

        desencantamento
        Russian
        расколдовывание мира
        Portuguese
        desencantamento do mundo
        Spanish
        desencantamiento

        Cultural rationalization and devaluation of religion apparent in modern society.

              расколдовывание мира
              Usage of disenchantment in English
              1
              The figures match or exceed the previous high-water mark of public disenchantment.
              The Guardian
              2
              They also tend to have high error rates, leading to user disenchantment.
              Wired
              3
              Watergate may now be one of the lesser causes of popular disenchantment.
              The new yorker
              4
              His disenchantment is spreading to supporters who booed at the final whistle.
              Reuters
              5
              They are its victims: the victims of disgust, of disenchantment-oftenof remorse.
              Under Western Eyes
              6
              From regret to disenchantment I floated on to Buddhism, to universal weariness.
              Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel
              7
              And she did not bring her disenchantment as a charge against him.
              The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
              8
              The man's artificial antagonism modified; the woman's disenchantment began to seem unreal.
              The Blazed Trail
              9
              An unreasonable disenchantment, like the awakening from a happy dream, oppressed me.
              Romance
              10
              He begins to wonder to himself, and grows suddenly homesick under disenchantment.
              The Fool Errant / Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley,...
              11
              Which is the illusion, one wonders,-theoriginal enchantment or the final disenchantment?
              The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.]
              12
              They are its victims: the victims of disgust, disenchantment -often of remorse.
              Modern Times
              13
              Smith says his disenchantment with the Iraq war in 2003 determined his future.
              The Guardian
              14
              This disenchantment intensified when Swansea took the lead within two minutes.
              The Guardian
              15
              By the end of 1899 the disenchantment was general and widespread.
              Russia
              16
              Their disenchantment with traditional politics, which fails them daily, is palpable.
              The Guardian
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              Disenchantment through the time
              Disenchantment across language varieties
              United Kingdom
              Common
              United States of America
              Common