单词 | disaffection |
释义 | disaffectionn. I. Lack of affection. 1. Absence or loss of affection or kindly feeling towards a person or thing; dislike, hostility, animosity; alienation, estrangement. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > [noun] loathc1175 unlikinga1398 mislovinga1500 scunner?a1513 misliking1563 recess1567 mislikea1569 quarrel1579 underliking1581 ill liking1586 disaffection1599 dyspathy1603 exception1604 aversation1612 disrelish1613 unrelishness1615 misaffection1621 averseness1622 distastefulnessa1625 disaffectedness1625 disrelishing1692 eloinmenta1763 unwantedness1955 the mind > emotion > hatred > hostility > [noun] unthankc893 witherwardnessc897 witherOE wrakea1023 ungrithlOE feythhed1297 grill13.. ill1303 unfriendshipa1340 enmity?a1400 feuda1400 despitec1400 unkindnessc1400 ingratitude1477 barrace1488 disfriendship1493 hostility1531 dislovea1533 adversation1543 diskindness1596 disaffection1599 ill blood1624 disaffectedness1625 inimicalness1651 unfriendlinessa1684 animus1795 inimicality1797 virus1866 negativism1977 1599 R. Parsons Temperate Ward-word iv. 50 Dismissing some and putting others to death, according to the affection or disaffection which he bare to..them. 1640 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 145 Chastening is..far from being any argument of the father's dis-affection. 1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 46 Not to root up our naturall affections and disaffections. 1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem iii. 38 What Evidence can prove the unaccountable, Disaffections of Wedlock. 1791 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 99/1 The degree was certainly not opposed.., from any disaffection to the cause which Mr. Burke had..defended. 1856 G. Raymond Drafts for Acceptance 236 Having a strange disaffection for music, little Emma's master..was to have notice of absence. 1879 R. L. Stevenson Trav. with Donkey 87 Modestine..seemed to have a disaffection for monasteries. 1902 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 4 Oct. 1039/1 Drawbacks have been many and disaffections several. 1941 Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 6 Nov. 15/3 There has been a certain mortality among Japanese restaurants in New York during the last year. I do not know whether this is due to a disaffection for Japanese goods in some quarters. 1990 Sports Illustr. 2 Apr. 43/3 Gable and Seay's mutual disaffection is nothing compared to the Brands brothers' animosity toward one another. 2007 Bluefield (W. Va.) Daily Tel. 20 Mar. a4/4 His damaging personal life, including his disaffection from his children, has damaged his image. 2. spec. a. Alienation from or dissatisfaction with an authority, government, system of organization, etc.; disenchantment or discontent with the status quo; hostility or disloyalty to a controlling power; dissent. Cf. disaffected adj.1 1. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > political disaffection > [noun] disaffection1607 malignancy1644 antarchy1656 1607 B. Jonson Volpone ii. i. sig. D2 Nor any dis-affection to the State Where I was bred. View more context for this quotation 1683 Britanniæ Speculum 218 To take away all Occasions of Disaffection to the Anointed of the Lord. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 204. ⁋2 Thou hast reconciled disaffection, thou hast suppressed rebellion. 1793 Acct. Trial T. Muir for Sedition 6 Exciting, by means of Seditious Speeches and Harangues, a spirit of disloyalty and disaffection to the King and the Established Government. 1808 S. Smith Wks. (1867) I. 115 A very probable cause of disaffection in the troops. 1851 Guardian 2 July 482/3 The true cure, then, for disaffection from the Church, would be to correct that obvious evil from which she suffers. 1922 Advocate of Peace Apr. 159/2 It was charged that Ghandi had brought about disaffection to the government. 1980 Asian Surv. 20 67 The majority of the voters clearly expressed their disaffection from the government, and they wanted a change. 2016 Irish Times (Nexis) 14 Apr. 15 Pay levels in the multinational sector have risen but there is growing disaffection and militancy elsewhere as employees feel excluded from the benefits of economic recovery. b. A feeling of dissatisfaction or alienation; an instance of being or becoming alienated or dissatisfied; (also) a reason for dissatisfaction or alienation; a complaint, a grievance. Chiefly in plural. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > [noun] unlikinga1398 aggrudging1440 grudge1477 miscontenting1495 murmurheada1500 discontentation?1510 discontentinga1513 miscontentationa1530 miscontentment1535 insatisfaction1568 discontentment1572 discontent1581 malcontentment1587 miscontent1588 discontentedness1589 malcontent1591 malcontentedness1592 repine1593 bad satisfaction1607 dissatisfaction1640 unsatisfactoriness1643 unsatisfiedness1646 uncontentedness1654 disaffection1697 dissatisfiedness1710 chagrin1717 repinement1743 malcontentism1813 soreheadedness1860 uncontent1873 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > alienation disaffection1697 Verfremdung1945 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xiii. 371 The whole Crew were at this time under a general disaffection, and full of very different Projects. 1716 A. Boyer Polit. State Great Brit. June 657 The Disaffections of the People are so great..that new Elections will occasion new Riots. 1738 E. A. Burgis Ann. Church IV. 328 Some Eutychians industrious to improve the peoples disaffections handed up and down a greek translation of S. Leo's letter. 1797 Telegraph 9 Feb. Accounts were received of the increased disaffections of the Company's troops. 1885 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 4 Nov. 1/6 In a few counties having local disaffections the vote is divided. 1941 E. Guerrier We Pledged Allegiance 157 Proper handling of the food situation would go far to ameliorate conditions and correct present social disaffections in Italy. 1985 Times 29 Mar. 15/4 It is surely a matter of prudence not to politicize many of a younger generation whose disaffections will play straight into the hands of extremists. 2007 Economist 19 May 14/1 Strong democratic institutions are needed to address the disaffections terrorism feeds upon. c. An act of expressing such alienation or dissatisfaction; a demonstration of discontent or disenchantment with the status quo; a rebellious act, an uprising. Chiefly in plural. ΚΠ 1776 Monthly Rev. Nov. 397 Many curious and interesting particulars respecting the disaffections and disorders produced in Canada by the late Quebec act. 1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon VIII. xvi. 412 Disaffections among the lower orders. 1894 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 426 Cleveland, the legatee of all disaffections and disorders in the same territory, received in 1892 72,431 votes less than in 1888. 1930 Times 18 Sept. 11/4 The evidence..was to the effect that Subhi Bey..was the mainspring of the present disaffections. 2004 H. J. Bernstein Between Crown & Community vi. 140 We should not exaggerate..their intentions to serve as leaders of popular disaffections. d. An act of withdrawing allegiance or support from a group, organization, cause, etc., esp. in order to transfer it to another. Also: the action or fact of defecting from or to a party, cause, etc. ΚΠ 1920 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 28 412 Now began the coalitions and disaffections which have brought so many labor parties to ruin. 1937 Far Eastern Surv. 6 57/2 Almost every day has come news of heavy disaffections to the Communists from the troops of Yang Fu-chang. 1968 Financial Times 7 Aug. 7/8 Reliable reports reaching London at the week-end spoke of disaffections from the Army. 2015 Australian (Nexis) 8 Jan. 11 Major cracks have appeared in his core support base..while there have been many disaffections from within his ruling Freedom Party. II. Disturbance; indisposition. 3. The state or condition of being detrimentally affected in some way, esp. physically. Also: an instance of this; a disorder, an indisposition. Cf. disaffect v.2 Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > disordered state untemperateness1398 mistemperancec1485 mistemper1549 intemperature1559 mistemperateness1561 mistempering1561 dissension1582 indisposition1598 undisposedness1600 untune1603 disaffection1618 discomposure1646 distemper1648 misaffection1650 indisposedness1654 intemperies1676 intempery1676 intemperament1698 seediness1832 the uglies1846 upset1866 undertone1872 run-downness1890 woofits1918 underfunction1941 underfunctioning1941 1618 B. Holyday Τεχνογαμια iv. vii. sig. M2v We made a dissection in her head, to see what was the disaffection of her braine. 1688 R. Boyle Disquis. Final Causes 260 This woman..had a disaffection of sight very uncommon. 1736 Compl. Family-piece i. i. 77 If the Patient be subject to..any Swelling, Heat, or Disaffection in the Eye-lids. 1852 London Jrnl. of Arts &Sci. 40 309 A lengthened and elaborate investigation was entered into, with a view of arriving at the origin of the periodic disaffections of the magnetic needles. 1930 Times 1 Oct. 13/4 The remedy, as with most disaffections of the mind, is to take a wider view. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1599 |
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