Disabusing

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  disabuse \dis`a*buse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disabused}; p. pr.
     & vb. n. {Disabusing}.] [Pref. dis- + abuse; cf. F.
     d['e]sabuser.]
     To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from
     fallacy or deception; to set right; -- often used with of;
     as, to disabuse one of his illusions.


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           To undeceive and disabuse the people.    --South.
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           If men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse
           themselves or artifice, hypocrisy, and superstition,
           they will consider this event as an era in their
           history.                                 --J. Adams.
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