What does disabuse mean?
Definitions for disabuse
ˌdɪs əˈbyuzdis·abuse
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word disabuse.
Princeton's WordNet
disabuseverb
free somebody (from an erroneous belief)
Wiktionary
disabuseverb
To free (someone) of a misconception or misapprehension; to unveil a falsehood held by (somebody).
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Disabuseverb
To set free from a mistake; to disentangle from a fallacy; to set right; to undeceive.
Etymology: dis and abuse.
The imposture and fallacy of our senses impose not only on common heads, but even more refined mercuries, who have the advantages of an improved reason to disabuse you. Joseph Glanvill.
Those teeth fair Lyce must not show,
If she would bite her lovers: though
Like birds they stoop at seeming grapes,
Are disabus’d, when first she gapes. Edmund Waller.If by simplicity you meant a general defect in those that profess angling, I hope to disabuse you. , Angler.
Chaos of thought and passion, all confus’d;
Still by himself abus’d, or disabus’d. Alexander Pope, Ess. on Man.
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disabuse
Disabuse typically refers to the action or process of correcting someone's misunderstanding, misconceptions or false impressions about something. It involves persuading someone that their belief is not true or valid.
Webster Dictionary
Disabuseverb
to set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right
Etymology: [Pref. dis- + abuse; cf. F. dsabuser.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Disabuse
dis-ab-ūz′, v.t. to undeceive: to set right.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of disabuse in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of disabuse in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of disabuse in a Sentence
Philippine Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra:
Our government is prepared to face any inquiry if the same becomes necessary to disabuse the minds of those who rely on or give undue credence to selective, if not biased, second-hand information.
Those who think this thing is not close -- I hate to disabuse you.
According to public documents today... there was a lot of tradecraft, spycraft going on around my life during that time, so, I certainly wouldn't disabuse the notion that he might have been dangling something to see if I would bite or if the campaign would bite.
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