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disaffection|dɪsəˈfɛkʃən|
[f. dis- 9 + affection; or n. of action f. disaffect v.1 and v.2, after affection.]
1. Absence or alienation of affection or kindly feeling; dislike, hostility: see affection 6.
1640Sanderson Serm. II. 145 Chastening is..far from being any argument of the father's dis-affection. 1643Milton Divorce ii. vii. (1851) 78 Not to root up our naturall affections and disaffections. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. x. iii. §6 His disaffection to the discipline established in England. 1706–7Farquhar Beaux Strat. iii. iii, What Evidence can prove the unaccountable Disaffections of Wedlock? 1879Stevenson Trav. Cevennes 87 Modestine..seemed to have a disaffection for monasteries.
2. spec. Political alienation or discontent; a spirit of disloyalty to the government or existing authority: see disaffected 1.
1605B. Jonson Volpone ii. i, Nor any dis-affection to the state Where I was bred. 1683Brit. Spec. 218 To take away all Occasions of Disaffection to the Anointed of the Lord. 1697W. Dampier Voy. I. 371 The whole Crew were at this time under a general disaffection, and full of very different Projects. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 204 ⁋2 Thou hast reconciled disaffection, thou hast suppressed rebellion. 1808Syd. Smith Wks. (1867) I. 115 A very probable cause of disaffection in the troops. 1874Green Short Hist. 556 The popular disaffection told even on the Council of State.
†3. The condition of being evilly affected physically; physical disorder or indisposition. Obs.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. xi. 144 Forc'd to fly to Physick, for cure of the disaffection. 1676Wiseman (J.), The disease took its original merely from the disaffection of the part, and not from the peccancy of the humours. 1688Boyle Final Causes Nat. Things, Vitiated Sight 260 This woman..had a disaffection of sight very uncommon. 1741Compl. Fam.-Piece i. i. 78 If the Patient be subject to..any Swelling, Heat, or Disaffection in the Eyelids. |