Example Sentences

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But he decides “to seek the truth” for her sake: “I will disabuse her or avenge her.”

From The New Yorker • Feb. 17, 2015

If it does nothing else, the summit will disabuse Obama's peer group of these myths and elevate the issue to the presidential level.

From Newsweek • Apr. 9, 2010

Either of these books will disabuse a reader of such notions.

From Time Magazine Archive

To put a lock upon your fiance'e's neck and arm, foretells that you are distrustful of her fidelity, but future episodes will disabuse your mind of doubt.

From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Miller, Gustavus Hindman

My little essay will disabuse them, by showing that society is aiming at a very different end,—maintaining itself.

From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Paine, Thomas