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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
disaffect .
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Examples
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To early man the “lower animals,” which are born, live and die like himself, showing all the same affects and disaffects, loves and hates, passions, prepossessions and prejudices, must have seemed quite human enough and on an equal level to become his substitutes.
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To early man the "lower animals," which are born, live and die like himself, showing all the same affects and disaffects, loves and hates, passions, prepossessions and prejudices, must have seemed quite human enough and on an equal level to become his substitutes.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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'Tell the hilding, when he returns, that thus Edward of March, fair to friends and terrible to foes, rewards the coward who disaffects the men of
The Last of the Barons — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Edward of March, fair to friends and terrible to foes, rewards the coward who disaffects the men of Yorkshire to their chief. '
The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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He persevered in the school; where, if a boy disaffects book-knowledge, his books are only bought and sold.
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828
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Not a ward system like Eureka where the whole city votes on that disaffects the ward system.
Arcata Eye 2009
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Not a ward system like Eureka where the whole city votes on that disaffects the ward system.
Arcata Eye 2009
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Not a ward system like Eureka where the whole city votes on that disaffects the ward system.
Arcata Eye 2009
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