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Disinterest
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Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage. [Obs.] Glanvill.
2. Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage; disinterestedness. [Obs.] Johnson.
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Part of speech: verb (v.)
To divest of interest or interested motives. [Obs.] Feltham.
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Part of speech: participle (p.)
Disinterested. [Obs.] The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even. Jer. Taylor.