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Definition of Disenchantment
1. Noun. Freeing from false belief or illusions.
Generic synonyms: Edification, Sophistication
Derivative terms: Disenchant, Disillusion, Disillusion
Definition of Disenchantment
1. n. The act of disenchanting, or state of being disenchanted.
Definition of Disenchantment
1. Noun. the act of disenchanting or the state of being disenchanted ¹
2. Noun. freeing from false belief or illusions ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disenchantment
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disenchantment
Literary usage of Disenchantment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Study of Gawain and the Green Knight by George Lyman Kittredge (1916)
"In both, he urges the reluctant Gawain to cut off his head,4 and this is the
final act in a somewhat complicated process of disenchantment. ..."
2. Glaciers of North America: A Reading Lesson for Students of Geography and by Israel Cook Russell (1897)
"GLACIERS OF disenchantment BAY. (See map forming Plate 17. ... The best general
idea of the ice streams discharging into disenchantment bay can be obtained ..."
3. Glaciers of North America: A Reading Lesson for Students of Geography and by Israel Cook Russell (1897)
"GLACIERS OF disenchantment BAT. (See map forming Plate 17. ... The best general
idea of the ice streams discharging into disenchantment bay can be obtained ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1849)
"disenchantment. BY DELTA. I. ALTHOUGH from Adam stained with crime, A halo girds
the path of time, As 'twere things humble with sublime, Divine with mortal ..."
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