undisabused

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ disabused

Adjective[edit]

undisabused (not comparable)

  1. not disabused, still labouring under an illusion
    • 1977 J. F. Hausfeld & M. W. Jackson "On 'political education'" Australian journal of political science (Vol.13 No.1, doi:10.1080/00323267808401651) p.162:
      If our students do not learn these things from us they will continue undisabused in the misconceptions widely believed and propagated in the Australian society at large.
    • 2009 February 18, Washington Diarist, “Network Nation”, in The New Republic:
      I do not look to the White House for irony, but the extent to which the Obama bliss is premised upon such undisabused belief vexes me. Credulity is a poor foundation for conviction.

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