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单词 disillusionment
释义

disillusionmentn.

Etymology: < disillusion v. + -ment suffix: compare modern French désillusionnement.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: disiˈllusionment.
The action of disillusioning, or fact of being disillusioned.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > [noun] > disillusionment
disillusion1851
disillusioning1855
disillusionment1856
disillusionizing1864
disenchantment1876
dishallucination1881
1856 Leisure Hour 5 712/2 The first few days in Rome..must be a disappointment—a sort of disillusionment, if we may coin that term.
1886 Cent. Mag. 32 939 Therein was the beginning of disillusionments.
1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. lxvi. 327 We have seen..the terrible disillusionment and suicides of Gallio and of Seneca.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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