Disenchants

Word DISENCHANTS
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Definitions and meanings of "Disenchants"

What do we mean by disenchants?

(of a person) To free from illusion, false belief or enchantment; to undeceive or disillusion.

(of a person) To disappoint.

(of a thing) To remove a spell or magic enchantment from.

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The word "disenchants" in example sentences

The modern view disenchants the universe, Lewis argued, and tends to make it “all fact and no meaning.” ❋ Mary Kate Hurley (2008)

Nothing disenchants potential viewers than the cancellation of a series 3 episodes in. ❋ Unknown (2006)

That is to say, positivism “disenchants” nature -- along with everything that can be studied by the sciences, whether natural, social or human. ❋ Brennan, Andrew (2008)

I understand there's also some nameds that you can skip to in instances who always drop an item that always disenchants into a large shard. 5g? or so for 15 minutes work. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Plato both enchants and disenchants eros, and we need both. ❋ Allan Bloom (2003)

The charm lay partly in their very imperfection; for this is suggestive, and sets the imagination at work; whereas, the finished picture, if a good one, leaves the spectator nothing to do, and if bad, confuses, stupefies, disenchants, and disheartens him. ❋ Benj. N. Martin (N/A)

Seeing him so thin, the witch calls for more food and while she turns her back, Gretel quickly takes up the juniper bough, and speaking the formula, disenchants her brother. ❋ Charles Annesley (N/A)

The spread of shallow but clear knowledge, like the cold snow-water issuing from the glaciers, daily chills and disenchants the hearts of millions once credulous. ❋ R. Brimley Johnson (1899)

His disappointment in love disenchants him; he sees the reverse side of civilisation, but at last he finds an anodyne for his palsied heart in a more sober version of his earlier faith, a chastened belief in his Mother-age. ❋ Unknown (1894)

Gretel on an errand a moment later, the Witch disenchants her with the formula, ❋ Henry Edward Krehbiel (1888)

When she is grown up, she goes out into the world, kills the king of the serpents, and disenchants a king, queen, and prince, who prove to be the parents and brother of her godmothers, and she marries the prince. ❋ Unknown (1878)

Lohengrin at once disenchants the swan, and Gottfried appears and rushes into his sister's arms. ❋ Unknown (1876)

_The Sedulous Ape_ sometimes disenchants as well as charms; for occasionally a word, a touch, a turn, sends us off too directly in search of the model; and this operates against the interest as introducing a new and alien series of associations, where, for full effect, it should not be so. ❋ Unknown (1871)

It must either be done by Faith, whose rod disenchants them into their native nothingness, and then it is blessed; or it must be done by death, whose mace smites them to dust, and then it is pure, irrevocable loss and woe. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

Marriage disenchants him and the knowledge of this maddens her into something akin to hatred. ❋ Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1853)

A visit to this fresco disenchants one wonderfully. ❋ Various (1852)

At any rate, the first sketch is the more suggestive, and sets the spectator's imagination at work; whereas the picture, if a good one, leaves him nothing to do; if bad, it confuses, stupefies, disenchants, and disheartens him. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

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