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Meanings of disillusion in English

Portuguese
desencantamento
Catalan
desengany
Spanish
desencanto

Freeing from false belief or illusions.

        desencantamento
        Portuguese
        desiludir
        Catalan
        desil·lusionar

        Free from enchantment.

            desiludir
            Usage of disillusion in English
            1
            Clearly, disillusion with Japan's establishment has reached new depths since the disasters.
            Reuters
            2
            The experience of the previous night had some hand in this disillusion.
            The Mayor of Warwick
            3
            It is the cult of the pessimist, the gentle malice of disillusion.
            A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
            4
            But those who dream the possible will, very possibly, suffer real disillusion.
            The book of disquiet
            5
            Under the sky of Paris and its cold light the disillusion began.
            The Nabob
            6
            The shadow of disillusion crept into his bright dream and clouded it.
            The Lure of the Mask
            7
            Quinette didn't want to disillusion her, so she confirmed this idyllic picture.
            Acts of faith
            8
            The disillusion of such a meeting is too great to be pleasurable.
            Doctor Claudius, A True Story
            9
            Only be prepared for another disillusion when you get the wall down.
            The Spanish Chest
            10
            He had only given her seven days of bitter disappointment and disillusion.
            The Forfeit
            11
            I should like, some day, to meet the writer and disillusion her.
            Half a Rogue
            12
            She has driven us, naked and ashamed, into the desert of disillusion.
            The Black Cat: A Play in Three Acts
            13
            Nothing save a sight of the Count would, I feared, disillusion them.
            The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
            14
            For this romance, and the disillusion she had suffered, Innocent loved her.
            Innocent : her fancy and his fact
            15
            The word disillusion can then be used justifiably, that of pollution, never.
            The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert
            16
            Rita made no attempt to disillusion them, recognizing that it must fail.
            Dope
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            Translations for disillusion
            Spanish
            desencanto
            Disillusion through the time
            Disillusion across language varieties
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