The word 'disenchant' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb that means to cause someone to lose enthusiasm or belief in something. For example, "The unfulfilled promises of the venture capitalist quickly disenchanted the other investors".
During World War II the philosophers Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno drew on Weber to point out that science's attempts to disenchant the world resulted only in a kind of return of the repressed: the irrationality that had been squelched by enlightened reason returned in the form of violence and barbarism.
Later political theorists and philosophers such as Jane Bennett and Charles Taylor sought to question the very premises of Weber's thesis that science serves only to disenchant the world and dispel spiritual feeling.
What Carey calls "the dark strength of the misunderstanding" will persist for more than half the book, because Dial does not have the courage to disenchant this "lovely little boy," with his "perfect little boy legs, falling socks, banged-up shin and expensive sweater made from merino sheep, the face, the father's face, dear Jesus".
"It is," as he writes, "good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us".
Shawn's strategy is to disenchant himself about himself; he is hilarious about our ability to overlook the hornswoggling behind a life of privilege.
His miller's daughter wields an ax and uses it to disenchant a prince by chopping off the tail of a gigantic black cat.
Who said that? "There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting and enslaving than the life at sea".
This is the same disenchanting wisdom that Rorem imparts in the final act of "Our Town".
It felt literally disenchanting.
The battles over access to contraception and other women's health issues that have sprung to life on the Republican campaign trail in recent weeks have had the effect of disenchanting some moderate Republican women.
NEW YORK TIMES Public Tell-Alls and Takedowns | High finance is not the only industry that has been disenchanting its long-time veterans lately.
