disillusion
dis i looh zhuhn
- n freeing from false belief or illusions
- v free from enchantment
- Calling Wilson a "blind, deaf Don Quixote" and Clemenceau a xenophobe with "one illusion France, and one disillusion mankind" (and only at the last moment scratching the .
- Ernest Hemingway said all great love affairs end in tragedy: either disillusion sets in and people "settle" or separate, or one member of the affair dies, leaving the other alone.
- Postwar disillusion activated democracy's two deadly foes: fascism and communism.