disinterestedness

• But the reason for my disinterestedness was even more discreet: I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself. —  The Fall
• I respect you, and would not have made you the offer except by express command, but I still trust that when your disinterestedness is above suspicion you will still join us It was sore mortification when Hester Bridgeman was preferred to the office, for which she was far less fitted, being no favourite with the babe, and being essentially vulgar in tastes and habits, and knowing no language save her own, and that ungrammatically and with an accent which no one could wish the Prince to acquire. —  A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago
• You may be quite sure that if he has shut himself up here at this critical time, it is in order that he may the better direct his operations from a distance, whilst at the same time feigning a retreat, a disinterestedness which is bound to have a good effect Then Prada began to expatiate on Sanguinetti with no little complacency, for he liked the man's spirit of intrigue, his keen, conquering appetite, his excessive, and even somewhat blundering activity. —  The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
• Good heavens: that Mosaide loves you without that disinterestedness which is so admirable in an old man, and so well suited for an uncle? —  The Queen Pedauque
• As to interested motives, they were at most but secondary; and his disinterestedness was all the more meritorious, since the embarrassed state of his affairs made him really require money, and Miss Milbank had none at that period. —  Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English

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