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disenchanting

disenchanting \disenchanting\ adj. freeing from illusion, credulity, overoptimism, or false belief.

Syn: disillusioning.

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disenchanting

vb. (present participle of disenchant English)

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disenchanting

adj. freeing from illusion or false belief [syn: disillusioning]

Usage examples of "disenchanting".

It is precisely by disenchanting the world that the knowing subject liberates itself!

By God, if Senor Merlin has not found out some other way of disenchanting the lady Dulcinea del Toboso, she may go to her grave enchanted.

The habit in some families for the members of it to show each other's letters is a most disenchanting one.

She was looking forward to the day with that mixture of eagerness and withholding which we have as we draw nigh the disenchanting termination of an enchanting romance, when Sir Willoughby met her on a Sunday morning, as she crossed his park solitarily to church.

A hundred different ways of disenchanting him exist, and Adrian will point you out one or two that shall be instantly efficacious.

For years you have this pleasure, unalloyed by any disenchanting reality.

Let me take, as an illustration of the effect on mythology of this disenchanting turn of mind, the example of the Deluge.