DISINTEREST

p. n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
p.

Disinterested. [Obs.] The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even. Jer. Taylor.

2.
n.

What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage. [Obs.] Glanvill.

3.
n.

Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage; disinterestedness. [Obs.] Johnson.

4.
v.

To divest of interest or interested motives. [Obs.] Feltham.