Both Uses of
disabuse
in
A Prayer for Owen Meany
- For students the age of my Bishop Strachan girls to spend seven weeks of the summer memorizing The Medea and The Trojan Women must have been an exercise in tedium—and one that risked disabusing the youngsters of their infatuation with the stage.†
p. 529.6 *disabusing = convincing (someone) that an idea previously believed is not correct
- It seemed pointless for me to disabuse Dan of his notion of my father's sincerity.†
p. 561.6disabuse = convince (someone) that an idea previously believed is not correct
Definition:
convince (someone) that an idea previously believed was not correct