disinteressment

English

Etymology

Compare French désintéressement.

Noun

disinteressment (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) disinterestedness; impartiality; fairness
   • 1709, Matthew Prior, Preface to Poems on Several Occasions

     he has managed some of the charges of the kingdom with known ability ; and laid them down with entire disinteressment

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “disinteressment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)