† disinteressmentn.
Obsolete.
Disinterestedness, impartiality.
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society > morality > virtue > morally elevated quality > unselfishness > [noun] > lack of selfish bias
disinteressedness1648
disinterest1658
disinteressmenta1680
disinterestedness1687
uninterestedness1691
uninteressedness1702
abstractedness1747
a1680 J. Bargrave Pope Alexander VII (1867) i. lxvii. 110 Let him read them both with an equal disinteressment.
1718 M. Prior Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) Postscr. to Pref. He [the Earl of Dorset] has managed some of the greatest charges of the kingdom, with known ability; and laid them down with entire disinteressment.
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