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Webster 1913 Edition


Disinterest

Dis-in′ter-est

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p.
Adj.
Disinterested.
[Obs.]
The measures they shall walk by shall be
disinterest
and even.
Jer. Taylor.

Dis-in′ter-est

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Noun.
1.
What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage.
[Obs.]
Glanvill.
2.
Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage; disinterestedness.
[Obs.]
Johnson.

Dis-in′ter-est

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Verb.
T.
To divest of interest or interested motives.
[Obs.]
Feltham.

Webster 1828 Edition


Disinterest

DISINTEREST

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Noun.
[dis and interest.]
1.
What is contrary to the interest or advantage; disadvantage; injury. [Little used or not at all.]
2.
Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage.

DISINTEREST

,
Verb.
T.
To disengage from private interest or personal advantage. [Little used.]