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nonchalance
(ˈnɒnʃələns; as Fr., nɔ̃ʃalɑ̃s)
[a. F. nonchalance, f. nonchalant: see next.]
The condition of being nonchalant; want of warmth of feeling or enthusiasm, lack of interest; indifference, unconcern.
1678Savile Corr. (Camden) 73 She..is at last tired with the King's nonchalance in the prosecution of it. 1758Case Authors Stated 28 With the true Non-Chalance of the Indifferent. 1774F. Burney Early Diary (1889) I. 306 All the sisters then poured the incense of praise upon this Ode, to which he listened with the utmost nonchalance. 1844Disraeli Coningsby iii. i, All this, too, without any excitement of manner; on the contrary, with repose amounting almost to nonchalance. 1865Cornh. Mag. July 29 Neglected dames were sublime in a wretched nonchalance. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) I. vi. 203 Allusions to his old characters are thrown in with a calculated nonchalance. |