disappointment
A disappointment describes the feeling that a hope has been destroyed or an unexpected grief caused one.
The underlying verb to disappoint was formed in the 19th century as a successful replacement word for the foreign words "detrompieren" (détromper) and "desabusieren" (désabuser), which were borrowed from the French language .
At first it had the positive meaning of “to tear out of a deception”, “to teach you better”, a disillusionment .
Following the negative meaning of “deceive”, the negative meaning developed as “not meeting an expectation”.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ after Mackensen - Large German Dictionary , 1977
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↑ détromper means in today's French
- to teach someone else (or: better)
- to clear up / free sb. of his / her error
- open one's eyes to sb
- take away the illusions from sb. sober so
- ↑ Paragraph after Duden "Etymologie" - dictionary of origin of the German language . 2nd Edition. Dudenverlag, 1989. As well as: Kluge Etymological Dictionary of the German Language . 24th edition. 2002. Each Lemma disappoint