disaffect
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Synonym Usage
See estrange.
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Origin of disaffect
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Discrimination against any class on account of color, race, nativity, sex, property, culture, can but embitter and disaffect that class, and thereby endanger the safety of the whole people.
From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper
Must not the torrent of invective and abuse, almost universally poured upon this people, tend to disaffect and indispose them to civil association!
From A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies by John Hoyland
And any and every discrimination against any class, whether on account of color, race, nativity, sex, property, culture, can but imbitter and disaffect that class, and thereby endanger the safety of the whole people.
From An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting by Anonymous
Miguel, in spite of his own lack of faith, found his wife's piety so poetical, so innocent, that it never once passed through his mind to disaffect her of it.
From Maximina by Armando Palacio Valdés
Say it's because you quite shamelessly made motions at others while you stood there, and did your best to disaffect men who hadn't the least desire to join in your trouble-making....
From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Sinclair Lewis
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