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Definition of Disabusing
1. disabuse [v] - See also: disabuse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disabusing
Literary usage of Disabusing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Joseph Jacobs (1892)
"We must know how to take a hint, especially in disabusing ourselves. He cannot
make himself understood who does not himself easily understand. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1922)
"In order to answer that series of questions I wish to begin by disabusing your
minds of the idea, if they harbor it, that a discovery in science is an ..."
3. Proceedings (1891)
"Whilst this line was under consideration of the town authorities, the author was,
for a length of time, engaged in disabusing the minds of the members of ..."
4. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1892)
"Lucas refers to his ' two excellent treatises . . . for the disabusing those of
the separation ; ' one of these was : 8. 'A Fresh Suit against Independency ..."
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