disacquaintance

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

dis- +‎ acquaintance

Noun[edit]

disacquaintance (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Neglect or disuse of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance.
    • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: [] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, [], published 1727, →OCLC:
      Conscience by a long neglect of , and dis-acquaintance with it self

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for disacquaintance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)