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/dˌɪsəfˈɛkʃən/ Listen

noun

Disaffection n.

State of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike. "In the making laws, princes must have regard to... the affections and disaffections of the people."

Disorder; bad constitution. (R.)

Synonyms: Dislike; disgust; discontent; unfriendliness; alienation; disloyalty; hostility.

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"Disaffection" Quotes from Famous Books

... pleased to grant me, as I could plainly perceive, in a very cold manner; but could not guess the reason, till I had a whisper from a certain person, that Flimnap and Bolgolam had represented my intercourse with those ambassadors as a mark of disaffection, from which, I am sure, my heart was wholly free. And this was the first time I began to conceive some imperfect ...

— Gulliver's Travels - Into Several Remote Regions of the World • Jonathan Swift

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... cause of their country they should acquire a title to fair and equitable treatment, are we resolved to furnish them with causes of eternal enmity, and rather supply them with just and founded motives to disaffection than not to have that disaffection in existence to justify an oppression which, not from policy, but disposition, we have ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

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... increasing the taxes of his kingdom. The measures, however, which he thus adopted for the purpose of making himself the more secure in his possession of the throne, proved to be the means of overthrowing him. The discontent and disaffection of his people, which had been strong and universal before, though suppressed and concealed, broke out now into open violence. That there should be laid upon them, in addition to all their other burdens, ...

— Cleopatra • Jacob Abbott

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... was victorious. The rest was retreat, dispersal, and widespread cruelties and burnings and a long succession of murders. The "Boys of Wexford" funder great difficulties had given a great account of themselves. Dark as was that page of history, it has been a glowing lamp to Irish disaffection ever since. It is the soul of the effort that counts, and the disasters do not discredit '98 in ...

— The Glories of Ireland • Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. Lennox

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... not touched it; it filled the domestic atmosphere with a subtle acrimoniousness unknown to it before. And Rose was watched—not openly, but systematically enough for her to know it—never allowed to go out alone, or to sit in the attic after a certain hour; driven into brooding loneliness and disaffection—in other words, towards her fellow-victim instead of ...

— Sisters • Ada Cambridge

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