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Idris Gidado, the ardo of the villages worst affected in June, said that he would ordinarily commend the civilian peacekeepers for their bravery but that a recent incident had disillusioned him.

From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2018

What had disillusioned him was Mao's treatment of intellectuals, who had been asked to criticize the regime and were then denounced as traitors.

From Time Magazine Archive

He did not want to disappoint or disillusion Tater, the way the real Duke had disillusioned Fred.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

Page 245 Eighteen months of war had disillusioned Maryland.

From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by Wood, William Charles Henry

In the first place, the Turks had disillusioned us as to the impossibility of crossing the waterless desert, and had actually crossed it with a considerable armed and organized force.

From With the British Army in The Holy Land by Lock, H. O. (Henry Osmond)