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Definition of Disaffects
1. disaffect [v] - See also: disaffect
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disaffects
Literary usage of Disaffects
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1853)
"... minds of the sufferers as not only sours and disaffects to the general Interests
of the Country, but to the particular State where the exaction is made. ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1883)
"The poet poisons the whole of society, disaffects a whole nation by a single
pamphlet, and puts himself at the head of an insurrectionary force. ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1859)
"Particularly, he disaffects military heroes: ' "T is not denied that much heroic
stuff Is still extant; we 've Captains quite enough, Colonels and Generals, ..."
4. Manures, Their Composition, Preparation, and Action Upon Soils: A Treatise by Gottlieb Boccius, Campbell Morfit (1848)
"... and disaffects the one power previous to the next coming forward, by which
those anomalies in nature called hybrids are avoided in fresh water; ..."
5. History of the French Revolution of 1848 by Alphonse de Lamartine (1849)
"Scandal humiliates her, and that which humiliates disaffects her. He thought that
the republic could only be made legitimate by order promptly reestablished ..."
6. The New Era in American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1919)
"The great Should be as large in liquor as in love,— And our great friend is not
so large in either: One disaffects him, and the other fails him; ..."
7. The Boston Review (1861)
"But when, as in this instance, the drift of a whole discourse disaffects intelligent
Christians, while it carries aid and comfort to the enemy, ..."
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