Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To interest; concern; affect; especially, to concern or affect deeply.
  • noun Interest; concern; deep concern.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To interest or affect.

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  • verb transitive (obsolete) interest

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Examples

  • Maybe Warner Bros or Paramount shows interess in co-produce and release this picture. giantyoda

    Teaser Trailer: Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | /Film 2008

  • Mrs. Peckover had, in fact, the reputation of being wealthy; she was always inheriting, always accumulating what her friends called 'interess,' never expending as other people needs must.

    The Nether World George Gissing 1880

  • A very distress motive, truly, but for the matter of that, you've not so much to boast of your friend Wou'dbe, if what I have been told of him is true; for I have heard say, he and the fine beast of a gentleman, Sir John Toddy, have joined interess.

    A Collection of Plays and Poems, by the Late Col. Robert Munford, of Mecklenburg County, in the State of Virginia. Now First Published Together. 1798

  • Nachdem Du Dich hier so massiv äusserst, würde mich interess ieren, für welchen Kunden Du a rbeitest, um die Hinterg [...]

    c0t0d0s0.org Joerg Moellenkamp 2010

  • I just do not think that a multi-billionaire has my best interess at heart.

    latimes.com - News 2010

  • Kemm fil-kaz ta 'Guantanamo u kif ukoll fuq din ta' l-immigrazzjoni ħadd minnhom ma vvota kontra l-interess ta 'pajjiżna ...

    timesofmalta.com 2009

  • M ` hemmx dubju li l-Membri Parlamentari Ewropej ikunu qeghdin jaghmlu l-agenda taghhom bil-ghan ewlieni u genwien fl-ahjar interess tal-Ewropej.

    timesofmalta.com 2009

  • L-ewwel l-interess tiehgek bhala prim ministru ghadnu jkun lejn il-Maltin li eleggewk.

    timesofmalta.com 2009

  • Niskanta li hafna minnhom ma juru l-ebda interess fl-elezzjonijiet ghall-gid taghhom stess.

    timesofmalta.com 2009

  • Kemm fil-kaz ta 'Guantanamo u kif ukoll fuq din ta' l-immigrazzjoni ħadd minnhom ma vvota kontra l-interess ta 'pajjiżna ...

    timesofmalta.com 2009

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