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Webster 1913 Edition


Disinterest

Dis-in′ter-est

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

Dis-in′ter-est

,
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

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

Webster 1828 Edition


Disinterest

DISINTEREST

,
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.]

Definition 2024


disinterest

disinterest

English

Noun

disinterest (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage. [17th-19th c.]
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Glanvill to this entry?)
  2. The absence of bias; impartiality. [from 17th c.]
    • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 125:
      He maintained a posture of scrupulous disinterest in Balkan affairs […].
  3. A lack of interest; indifference, apathy. [from 19th c.]

Translations

Verb

disinterest (third-person singular simple present disinterests, present participle disinteresting, simple past and past participle disinterested)

  1. (transitive) To render disinterested.

Translations

Adjective

disinterest (comparative more disinterest, superlative most disinterest)

  1. (obsolete) disinterested
    • Jeremy Taylor
      The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even.

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