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disacquaintance

disacquaintance noun: loss of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance.

Noun

disacquaintance (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Loss of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance.
    • Conscience by a long neglect of , and dis-acquaintance with it self1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London
    • The hotels kept up a specious brilliancy and hospitable outlook, but inside one saw vast empty caverns, and the footrails at the bars gleamed brightly from long disacquaintance with the sole-leather of customers.1909, O. Henry, Options, Rus in Urbe

Origin of disacquaintance

From dis- + acquaintance.

Questions about disacquaintance

What does disacquaintance mean?
Disacquaintance means loss of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance.
What part of speech is disacquaintance?
Disacquaintance is a noun.

Words near disacquaintance in the dictionary

  1. disacknowledges
  2. disacknowledging
  3. disacknowledgment
  4. disacknowledgments
  5. disacquaint
  6. disacquaintance
  7. disacquainted
  8. disacquainting
  9. disacquaints
  10. disacryl
  11. disacryls

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