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Definition of Disaffecting
1. disaffect [v] - See also: disaffect
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disaffecting
Literary usage of Disaffecting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society by Hakluyt Society (1888)
"... and disaffecting persons to his Majesties Government there and elsewhere, ...
and that the said Mutinous and disaffecting Persons have attempted to have ..."
2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"By disaffecting tho king's best friends at home and abroad, ... By disaffecting
his majesty's allies, Holland, Spain, and the German emperor aad princes, ..."
3. The Diary of William Hedges, Esq. (afterwards Sir William Hedges), During by William Hedges (1888)
"... and that the said Mutinous and disaffecting Persons have attempted to have
attached, apprehended and secured the Person of the said S': EDWARD WINTER ..."
4. A History of California: The American Period by Robert Glass Cleland (1922)
"... hard times, unequal taxes, a government in which the people had little faith,
lack of employment, and the Chinese question disaffecting the masses of ..."
5. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1895)
"... either by elevating Fremont into a political martyr, or by dividing the nation,
disaffecting the West to the administration, and dissipating that grand ..."
6. Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's by Plutarch, John Dryden (1875)
"... chiefly his familiar friends chid him for disaffecting monarchy only because
of the name, as if the virtue of the ruler could not make it a lawful form ..."
7. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1907)
"... that through lack of exercise, Indians are losing their genius for stop disloyal
people from disaffecting administering their own civic, provincial, ..."
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