disenchanter

And every one of us feels a queasy guilt at this hesitation; are we perhaps only leaving that job to be done by some subsequent disenchanter–an editor, or a series of rejection slips, a teacher braver than ourselves?

The Disappointment Artist « Gerry Canavan 2005

Bleak as it is, it is not the book of a disenchanter; and in writing it Crace was not simply proclaiming his adherence to a scientifically informed world view or crudely demolishing the concept of an afterlife.

Homo Erectus Scurr, Ruth 2004

The blood-red flag on this donjon was, at the era engaging us, the disenchanter of the Greeks; insomuch that in passing the Sweet Waters of

The Prince of India — Volume 01 Lewis Wallace 1866

"Possession is a great disenchanter," answered Sybil.

Cruel As The Grave Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859

The telegraph, however, is the great disenchanter.

Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General Charles James Lever 1839

In something of the same spirit -- but with a hatred to the German philosopher such as men are represented as feeling towards the gloomy enchanter, Zamiel or whomsoever, by whose hateful seductions they have been placed within a circle of malign influences -- did I at times revert to Kant: though for me his power had been of the very opposite kind; not an enchanter's, but the power of a disenchanter -- and a disenchanter the most profound.

The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822