disaffect
Example Sentences
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Inquiry being made whether Mr. Norton's preaching was calculated to disaffect subjects towards the government, no evidence was found to that effect.
From Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick by Mrs. William T. Savage
And any and every discrimination against any class, whether on account of color, race, nativity, sex, property, culture, can but embitter and disaffect that class, and thereby endanger the safety of the whole people.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The manner in which children's tastes are disregarded, their feelings ignored, and their instincts violated, is enough to disaffect one with childhood.
From Gala-days by Gail Hamilton
Gallatin warned him against the attempt that would be made to disaffect that district because none of the representatives whose seats had been vacated were residents of it.
From Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII by John Austin Stevens
And any and every discrimination against any class, whether on account of color, race, nativity, sex, property, culture, can but imbitter and disaffect that class, and thereby endanger the safety of the whole people.
From An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting by Anonymous
