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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 161 Children leueþ Frensche and construeþ and lerneþ an Englische, and haueþ þerby auauntage in oon side and disauauntage in anoþer.

a1425 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 351 (MED) Whoso synneþ for avantage of himsilf, his synne makiþ disavauntage of þat þat he weneþ turne to good.

1489–90 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1489 §51. m. 15 Your seid liegemen..susteyn and bere grete losses, hinderaunce and disavauntage.

a1500 tr. La Belle Dame sans Mercy (Cambr.) l. 694 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 105 (MED) Pyte of ryght ought to be resonable, And to no wyght of gret disauauntage.

1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War vi. iii. f. clii Thappoynctemente whiche they haue made wyth vs, hathe bene concluded for feare and to their disaduantage.

1618 Sir R. Naunton in S. R. Gardiner Fortescue Papers (1871) 68 They speake there all they can to the disadvantage of our nation.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 369 The Nightingale hath some disadvantage in the tongue; which is not acuminate and pointed as in the rest, but seemeth as it were cut off. View more context for this quotation

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 431 Some disadvantage we endur'd and paine, Till now not known. View more context for this quotation

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 136. ⁋3 I..never speak Things to any Man's Disadvantage.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) He sold to disadvantage.

1801 M. Edgeworth Moral Tales I. 231 Telling little anecdotes to his disadvantage.

1854 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. VI. 91 They would throw a construction on his conduct to his disadvantage before the public.

1936 W. Stiles Introd. Princ. Plant Physiol. xiii. 286 Symbiosis in which two organisms of different species live together in a close association apparently to their mutual advantage, or at least without any indication of disadvantage to either of the associates or symbionts.

1953 D. Eisenhower Let. 23 May in P. Boyle Churchill–Eisenhower Corr. (1990) 60 Any sign of weakening in our unity or resolve would again be exploited by them to the disadvantage of all of us.

2001 U.S. News & World Rep. 17 Dec. 22/2 He could play Washington's power games to his distinct advantage—and to the disadvantage of those who cross him.