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Disenchant   Listen
verb
Disenchant  v. t.  (past & past part. disenchanted; pres. part. disenchanting)  
1.
To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms or spells. "Haste to thy work; a noble stroke or two Ends all the charms, and disenchants the grove."
2.
To free (a person) from fascination or delusion; to destroy the false hopes or overoptimistic expectations of (a person); to disillusion; used with people or events as the agent (subject); as, the candidate was disenchanted by the low turnout at the rally.






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"Disenchant" Quotes from Famous Books



... the method for Chrysanthus. For severer methods end in Disappointment and disaster. Take him, then, from out his prison, Leave him free, unchecked, untrammelled, For the danger is an infant Without strength to hurt or harm him. Be it that those wretched Christians Have bewitched him, disenchant him, Since you have the power; for Nature With such careful forethought acteth, That an antidotal herb She for every poison planteth. And if, finally, your wish Is that he this fatal sadness Should forget, ...
— The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria - A Drama of Early Christian Rome • Pedro Calderon de la Barca

... disenchant him with his exploit, and I therefore left him, wholly at a loss to make out this strange ...
— My Friend Smith - A Story of School and City Life • Talbot Baines Reed

... it would be impossible to compress them within moderate limits. All you have heard is nothing to what I could relate to you about these people and their ways, their work and their idleness, their ignorance and their cleverness, and other matters without end, which might serve to disenchant many who ...
— The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

... too art one of our great men, who has been disenchanted. Thou, too, wert a companion of the great Lord Chaacmol. That is why thou didst know where he was hidden; and thou hast come to disenchant him also. His time to live again on earth has ...
— Vestiges of the Mayas • Augustus Le Plongeon

... "You'll disenchant me with your enormous appetite," chaffed the young fellow, and got a saucy slap for ...
— Idle Hour Stories • Eugenia Dunlap Potts

... introduction which followed, seemed to disenchant the mariners, who, recovering self-possession with a deep sigh, became sheepish in bearing, and seemed inclined to beat a retreat, but our heroine quickly put them at their ease. With a natural tact and grace of manner which had the appearance of, but was not ...
— The Island Queen • R.M. Ballantyne

... stolen from her when he was born. Flann gave his mother a token which had been given him by a young woman. The token was a handkerchief and it held seven drops of heart's blood. The Spae-Woman told the Queen that these seven drops would disenchant her brothers who had been changed from their own forms into the forms of ...
— The King of Ireland's Son • Padraic Colum

... minute more mistress of herself. With the thick, dark switch gone, Harriet was almost shocked by the change in the severely exposed forehead and face. Isabelle looked fully her age now, more than her age. But the younger woman knew that however honest her desire to disenchant her young lover, no woman ever risks his seeing her thus. Isabelle might weep, and pray, and suggest supreme sacrifice, but it would be the corseted and perfumed and beautiful Isabelle from whom Tony ...
— Harriet and the Piper - (Norris Volume XI) • Kathleen Norris

... friar, "all Bungey did was to try to disenchant the Lord Warwick, whom yon miscreant had spellbound. Poor Bungey! he is a friend to the people: and when he found that Master Adam was making a device for their ruin, he spared no toil, I assure ye, to frustrate the iniquity. Oh, how he fasted and watched! ...
— The Last Of The Barons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton



Words linked to "Disenchant" :   enchant, disillusion, disenchantment



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