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unˈinterested, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
†1. Unbiassed, impartial. Obs.
a1646J. Gregory Posthuma, Episc. Puerorum (1649) 107 By this uninterested disguis, the more to justifie the Celebrations. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 49 Nor do I think that any uninterested casuist will deny [etc.].
†2. Free from motives of personal interest; disinterested. Obs.
1661(title), A Relation of the business..concerning Bedford Levell,..by a person uninterested. 1704N. N. tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. III. 191 What think you of uninterested Men, who value the Publick Good beyond their own private Interest? 1767Cowper Let. Wks. 1837 XV. 17 You know me to be an uninterested person.
3. Unconcerned, indifferent. In this sense disinterested is increasingly common in informal use, though widely regarded as incorrect: see disinterested ppl. a. 1.
1771Ann. Reg. ii. 253/1 He is no cold, uninterested, and uninteresting advocate for the cause he espouses. 1774Trinket 54 In this amiable society can my heart be uninterested? 1823Byron Juan x. lxxiii, In the same quaint, Uninterested tone. 1850Thackeray Pendennis lvii, An almost silent but not uninterested spectator. 1980G. Greene Dr Fischer iv. 28, I wouldn't say that—he was totally uninterested in both of us. 1981London Rev. Bks. 19 Nov.–2 Dec. 21 Classical historiography was on the whole uninterested in local provincial history. 1982D. Fraser Alanbrooke iii. 53 He gave, at that time and later, a certain impression of being uninterested in people except at an agreeably superficial level, absorbed only in practical or professional pursuits.
Hence unˈinterestedly adv., -ness.
1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 55 As to that Uninterestedness so pretended to by them. 1891H. Herman His Angel 108 He looked upon the..crowds..uninterestedly. |