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▪ I. disillusion, n.|dɪsɪˈl(j)uːʒən|
[f. dis- 5 and 9 + illusion n. Cf. mod.F. désillusion.]
†I. [dis- 5.]
1. Illusion, delusion. Obs.
1598Yong Diana 139 What slights, what disillusions..Haue risen of such sorrowes? 1603H. Crosse Vertues Commw. (1878) 57 Such fallacies, and disillusions, are incident to a base and seruile condition.
II. [dis- 9.]
2. The action of freeing or becoming freed from illusion; the condition of being freed from illusion; disenchantment.
1851Mrs. Browning Casa Guidi Windows p. vii, The discrepancy between..faith and dis-illusion, between hope and fact. 1854Longfellow Epimetheus vi, Disenchantment! Dis-illusion! Must each noble aspiration Come at last to this conclusion? 1865Lond. Rev. 30 Dec. 712/1 Amidst the disappointments and the disillusions which followed the..revolutions of 1848. 1877Dowden Shaks. Prim. v. 53 It is the comedy of disillusion.
▪ II. disiˈllusion, v.
[f. prec. n.; cf. mod.F. désillusionner.]
trans. To free from illusion; to disenchant, undeceive, disillusionize.
1864Reader 1 Oct. 417 Captain Burton..disillusioned many be stating that the plain on which it stands was by no means unlike some parts of central equatorial Africa. 1876W. C. Russell Is he the Man? III. 193 His voice disillusioned me in a second.
Hence disiˈllusioned ppl. a.; disiˈllusioning vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also disiˈllusioner, disiˈllusionist, a disillusioning agent.
1855Smedley H. Coverdale xx. 127 Alice..took her revenge upon that disillusioning..lady's maid. 1866Lond. Rev. 724/1 The notion of this coach is commendable, and is a protest against the increase of dis-illusioning. The world, however, will not go back for our fancy, and we must fain keep up with it. 1871Morley Crit. Misc. Ser. i. 273 The disillusioned France of '99. 1881Symonds Shelley ii. 31 A disillusioned world is inclined to look with languid approbation on benevolence. 1889Voice (N.Y.) 14 Mar., The ballot in woman's hand will prove a disillusionist; she will then be judged as a man. 1892Graphic 9 July 38/3 Marriage is the great disillusioner. |