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Definition of Disinterests
1. disinterest [v] - See also: disinterest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disinterests
Literary usage of Disinterests
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. States, Markets, and Just Growth: Development in the Twenty-first Century by Atul Kohli, Chung-in Moon, Georg Sørensen (2003)
"... realizing that the United States was the only powerful state able to define
its interests and disinterests in regional cooperation agendas under the ..."
2. The Shortest And Most Convenient Route: Lewis And Clark in Context by Robert S. Cox (2004)
"... invoking the conflicting personalities, premature deaths, and interests and
disinterests of half a dozen men. Beginning with Jefferson and Lewis, ..."
3. Handbook of War Facts and Peace Problems by Arthur Lincoln Frothingham, Albert Bushnell Hart, National Security League (1919)
"... particularly the right to nominate a receiver of the customs, and disinterests
herself in any further negotiations for the rehabilitation of Liberia. ..."
4. A History of the Great War by Bertram Benedict (1919)
"... more particularly the right to nominate a receiver of the customs, and
disinterests herself in any further negotiations for the rehabilitation of ..."
5. VIth International Inland Navigation Congress, The Hague, 1894: Reports (1894)
"... also be avoided as much as possible as it disinterests the grantee to accomplish
possible improvements and stops the principal stimulant: the allurement ..."
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