Word Meanings - DISAFFECTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Alienated in feeling; not wholly loyal. J. H. Newman. -- Dis`af*fect"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis`af*fect"ed*ness, n.

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• FEELINGLY
  In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
• FEELER
  One of the sense organs or certain animals , which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp. Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennæ. Derham. 3. Anything,
• WHOLLY
  1. In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly. Nor wholly overcome, nor wholly yield. Dryden. 2. To the exclusion of other things; totally; fully. They employed themselves wholly in domestic life. Addison.
• LOYAL
  1. Faithful to law; upholding the lawful authority; faithful and true to the lawful government; faithful to the prince or sovereign to whom one is subject; unswerving in allegiance. Welcome, sir John ! But why come you in arms -To help King Edward
• ALIENATE
  Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from. O alienate from God. Milton.
• LOYALIST
  A person who adheres to his sovereign or to the lawful authority; especially, one who maintains his allegiance to his prince or government, and defends his cause in times of revolt or revolution.
• FEELING
  1. Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart. 2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
• ALIENATION
  A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another. 3. A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections. The alienation of his heart from the king. Bacon. 4. Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as,
• FEEL
  f; akin to OS. gif to perceive, D. voelen to feel, OHG. fuolen, G. fühlen, Icel. falma to grope, and prob. to AS. folm paim of the hand, 1. To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over
• LOYALTY
  The state or quality of being loyal; fidelity to a superior, or to duty, love, etc. He had such loyalty to the king as the law required. Clarendon. Not withstanding all the subtle bait With which those Amazons his love still craved, To his one love
• LOYALNESS
  Loyalty. Stow.
• LOYALLY
  In a loyal manner; faithfully.
• ALIENATOR
  One who alienates.
• MISFEELING
  Insensate. Wyclif.
• FELLOW-FEELING
  1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot.
• ABALIENATION
  The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement.
• DISLOYALLY
  In a disloyal manner.
• DISLOYALTY
  Want of loyalty; lack of fidelity; violation of allegiance.
• ABALIENATE
  To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate. 2. To estrange; to withdraw. 3. To cause alienation of . Sandys.
• DISLOYAL
  Not loyal; not true to a sovereign or lawful superior, or to the government under which one lives; false where allegiance is due; faithless; as, a subject disloyal to the king; a husband disloyal to his wife. Without a thought disloyal.
• NONALIENATION
  Failure to alienate; also, the state of not being alienated.
• FELLOWFEEL
  To share through sympathy; to participate in. D. Rodgers.