n. The act or process of disenchanting or freeing from a false belief.
n. The state of having been or process of becoming freed of false belief.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.
v. To free from an illusion; to disillusionize.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A freeing or becoming free from illusion; the state of being disillusioned or disenchanted; disenchantment.
To free from illusion; disenchant.
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n. freeing from false belief or illusions
v. free from enchantment
Word Usage
"Mr. Barber 's 1935 recording with the Curtis String Quartet of "Dover Beach," his own setting of Matthew Arnold' s classic poem of Victorian disillusion, is a technically polished, sensitively interpreted performance that has never been bettered."