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Definition of Aloof
1. Adverb. In an aloof manner. "The local gentry and professional classes had held aloof for the school had accepted their sons readily enough"
2. Adjective. Remote in manner. "He was upstage with strangers"
Definition of Aloof
1. n. Same as Alewife.
2. adv. At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away.
3. prep. Away from; clear from.
Definition of Aloof
1. Adverb. At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away. ¹
2. Adverb. Without sympathy; unfavorably. ¹
3. Adjective. Reserved and remote; either physically or emotionally distant ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aloof
1. distant in interest or feeling [adj] : ALOOFLY [adv]
Medical Definition of Aloof
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Aloof
Literary usage of Aloof
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1884)
"He could place a dependent at the Treasury, and Laud holds ., , he could cite
Puritans before the High Commission ; aloof from but the fatal power of ..."
2. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... to harm such ne have stood aloof from them. And ля' it is n naval, and not a
land alliance that is offered to you, the loss çf it is not tho »amo ..."
3. The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman (1891)
"... of the sage ex- 8(/n,is pounders of the dark riddles and dreams and visions
4, aloof- kept aloof from the body of which ..."
4. Relation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to Slavery by Charles King Whipple (1861)
"... the missionaries still acquiesced ; still ranked the buyers and sellers as
Christians ; and still held themselves aloof from vindication of the rights ..."
5. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"1983 tence says essentially the same thing no matter which aloof The usual
preposition following a/oof isfrom.' interpretation you give a/one. ..."
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