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Disinterest   /dɪsˈɪntərəst/   Listen
noun
Disinterest  n.  
1.
What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage. (Obs.)
2.
Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage; disinterestedness. (Obs.)


verb
Disinterest  v. t.  To divest of interest or interested motives. (Obs.)


adjective
Disinterest  adj.  Disinterested. (Obs.) "The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even."





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"Disinterest" Quotes from Famous Books



... unless we abandon the whole basis of the League of Nations, disinterest ourselves in an attack upon the existence of a nation which is a member of that league and whose life is in jeopardy. That covenant, as I understand it, does not contemplate, necessarily, military action in support of the imperilled ...
— Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him • Joseph P. Tumulty
... convicted himself when he asked for the double room next to the one occupied by Katherine and me and offered to pay the regular rate for two. He thinks that he is able to maintain an appearance of utter disinterest in us and throw us off our guard. But he overdoes the thing. He makes too big an effort to appear unconscious of our presence. It doesn't jibe at all with the expression of decided interest I have caught ...
— Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes - The Quest of a Summer Vacation • Stella M. Francis
... Mosby. If General Pope wasn't going to take care of his own rear, somebody ought to do it for him, and who better than John Mosby? He went promptly to Stuart, pointing out Pope's disinterest in his own lines of supply and communication, and asked that he be given about twenty men and detailed to get into Pope's rear and see what sort of ...
— Rebel Raider • H. Beam Piper
... this capital omission by erecting a paper wall between Germany and her great Slav neighbor. The plan was simple. The Teutons were to be compelled to disinterest themselves in the affairs of Russia, with whose destinies their own are so closely bound up. But they soon realized that such a partition is useless as a breakwater against the tidal wave of Teutondom, and Germany is still destined ...
— The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference • Emile Joseph Dillon
... special configuration or phantastic, wishful arrangement to the group of successive trial apperceptions called forth by the physical stimulus (A). The corresponding motives of desire and of aversion, (concisely pictured as positive interest in the reflex and disinterest in the microscope), although seeming to spring out of the system of memories (Z), which form the context, are none the less separate from it as self-acting sources of stimulus, as a wish apart from the mere ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10


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