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disillusionment

[dis-i-loo-zhuhn-muhnt] / ˌdɪs ɪˈlu ʒən mənt /




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It’s a novel about disillusionment and the search for identity, but when you revisit it, you also see that it’s very much a love story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

The first half of Communion, on Vance’s journey from evangelical Christianity to atheism to Catholicism, takes the reader through his disillusionment with the conservative evangelical churches of his youth.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026

Despite political disillusionment, Peruvians' main concern is security, as criminal gangs spread and extortion complaints spiked ninefold in five years.

From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026

Criticism and care aren’t always easy to tell apart, and disillusionment and patriotism aren’t opposites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

Elizabeth packed the red collar and seemed satisfied—too easily, he suspected, dreading her disillusionment.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford

The Black mustache didn’t end with the disillusionments of the post-civil-rights era.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2020

The experience provides an allegory for Ned’s life: every pool “reflects” something about his personal and professional disillusionments and dissatisfactions.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2015

It, too, is concerned with the disillusionments wrought by war and adulthood.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2015

Noises of the generation's falling hair and its disillusionments -- is that all there is? -- are muzzing in the American background.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the first of many disillusionments that were to come as her capacity to feel things grew.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith




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