Disabuse vs Disillusion - What's the difference?
disabuse | disillusion |
To free (someone) (of) a misconception or misapprehension; to unveil a falsehood held by (somebody).
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 140:
(countable) The act or process of disenchanting or freeing from a false belief.
(uncountable) The state of having been or process of becoming freed of false belief.
In lang=en terms the difference between disabuse and disillusion
is that disabuse is to free (someone) (of) a misconception or misapprehension; to unveil a falsehood held by (somebody) while disillusion is to free or deprive of illusion; to disenchant.As verbs the difference between disabuse and disillusion
is that disabuse is to free (someone) (of) a misconception or misapprehension; to unveil a falsehood held by (somebody) while disillusion is to free or deprive of illusion; to disenchant.As a noun disillusion is
(countable) the act or process of disenchanting or freeing from a false belief.disabuse
English
Verb
(disabus)- If we had any hopes or illusions about the National Party before they came into office, we were disabused of them quickly.