Freeing from false belief or illusions

Usage examples of disillusion.

But if Adams was disillusioned by the Franklin he came to know at Passy, he also recognized that Franklin had the confidence of Vergennes and the French Court as did no other American, and it was therefore the duty of all to treat him with respect.

I caught a sense, despite the general bustle and busy-ness, of despondency, downheartedness, disillusion.

I think nurses who stay in nursing either become disillusioned or develop a feeling of confidcnce about what they are.

Lamancha thought they were those of one of the three stags, but Wattie disillusioned him.

Archuleta house candles always flickered, and santos--some made from cornhusks, a number fashioned by Ruby herself, and still others carved by that disillusioned expatriot Snuffy Ledoux--lined the walls.

The driver, thoroughly disillusioned by these junkettings, began muttering under his breath.

It struck me as the kind of program that could only have been dreamt up by scientists, disillusioned security men, and code-geeks, and exactly the sort of naive, apolitical suggestion that got laughed out of enthusiastic young information-techs at their first IWWWW meeting.

The music of a concertina rose and fell, like the sighing of some disillusioned spirit.

She would see the face she had not seen since they stood together at the chancel step--the face from which the glad confidence slowly faded, a horror of chill disillusion taking its place.

They'd been together since their time as young conscripts in Afghanistan, leaving after the previous Chechen war in the mid-nineties, disillusioned with the leadership that had let them lose against the rebels.

There was something so world-weary and disillusioned about Lady Belling ham, though that was not to say that she had lost her natural kindness.

Then the cattle had gone missing, Jake had gone to jail and, brokenhearted and disillusioned, Megan had left Wyoming.

Her experience with Croser probably has done little to disillusion her—and of course Bronson's people aren't going to.

Naturally a man of independent and rather scornful outlook, he had suffered much from defeated ambition, from disillusions of many kinds, from subjection to grim necessity.

It was so easy because it was all dead and there weren't any disillusions comin' to me.