Definition of Disaffects

1. Verb. (third-person singular of disaffect) ¹

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Definition of Disaffects

1. disaffect [v] - See also: disaffect

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disaffects

disadventure
disadventures
disadventurous
disadvise
disadvised
disadvises
disadvising
disaffect
disaffectation
disaffected
disaffectedness
disaffecting
disaffection
disaffectionate
disaffections
disaffects
disaffiliate
disaffiliated
disaffiliates
disaffiliating
disaffiliation
disaffiliations
disaffirm
disaffirmance
disaffirmances
disaffirmation
disaffirmations
disaffirmed
disaffirming
disaffirms

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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