disillusionary
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disillusionary (comparative more disillusionary, superlative most disillusionary)
- Causing disillusion.
- 1957, Industrial Society, volumes 39-40, page 31:
- With newspapers, radio and television doing so much of our thinking for us, politics or, more particularly, gossip about politicians, is now on everyone's tongue. And what a disillusionary experience it is! These would-be immortals are revealed as frail and vain beings at every utterance.
- 1970, Herbert Aptheker, The urgency of Marxist-Christian dialogue, page 41:
- This is related to Moltmann's thought that "The starting point of this socialist revolution lies in the disillusionary experience of the French and capitalist revolutions.