Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being unengaged or unpledged.
- noun The state of being disengaged, unattached, or free from union, entanglement, or preoccupation; freedom from occupation, care, attention, prejudice, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
disengaged .
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Examples
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Mrs. Scudder and the Doctor only marked that she was more than ever conscientious in every duty, and that she brought to life's daily realities something of the calmness and disengagedness of one whose soul has been wrenched by a mighty shock from all moorings here below.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various
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Perhaps this very fact had something to do with the noble and sweet disengagedness of manner which marked her unlike those about her, in a world where self-interest of some sort is the ruling motive.
The Old Helmet 1864
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Perhaps this very fact had something to do with the noble and sweet disengagedness of manner which marked her unlike those about her, in a world where self-interest of some sort is the ruling motive.
The Old Helmet, Volume II Susan Warner 1852
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Pitt's disengagedness made him more ensnaring to her.
A Red Wallflower Susan Warner 1852
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