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disillusion

[dis-i-loo-zhuhn] / ˌdɪs ɪˈlu ʒən /


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Disillusion warns her that the road to salvation is to face the facts.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2025

Time and Disillusion remain abstractions up to the point when we dare no longer fool ourselves.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2025

Disillusion comes when she discovers that Vivien isn’t a doctor but, rather, an unemployed receptionist with prospects as limited as her own.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 5, 2017

Disillusion runs so deep that all rational thinking has been abandoned.

From The Guardian • Jan. 2, 2011

Disillusion   I touch joy and it crumbles under my fingers—   The dust from it rises and fills the world,   It blinds my eyes—I cannot see the sun.

From A Woman of Thirty by Seiffert, Marjorie Allen




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